Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 90

And the old washerwoman popped her head in at the door, nodded to him friendly, and said, “Thanks, many thanks, my good child, for your help!

Who acts: old washerwoman, your · What happens: pop, nod, say, help · To what, where: head, door, washerwoman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old washerwoman, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 popped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 washerwoman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 washerwoman	amod
4	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	nsubj
5	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nodded	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 popped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nodded	punct
13	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nodded	obl
16	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nodded	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 nodded	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Thanks	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Thanks	punct
22	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thanks	punct
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thanks	amod
25	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 Thanks	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 child	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 child	nmod:poss
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Thanks	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 help	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 help	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 help	nmod:poss
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pop	past	the old washerwoman	book's head		the door		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	nod	past			washerwoman		friendly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past					for your help	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	help in a quote		your					nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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