Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 23
Within the little garret lived a poor woman, who went out to clean stoves, chop wood into small pieces and perform such-like hard work, for she was strong and industrious.
Who acts: little garret, poor woman, garret · What happens: live, go out, clean, perform, be · To what, where: poor woman, stoves, small pieces, like hard work
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little garret, poor woman, garret), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 4 garret | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 garret | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 garret | amod |
| 4 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 clean | mark |
| 14 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 15 | stoves | stove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clean | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wood | punct |
| 17 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wood | compound |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stoves | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pieces | amod |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clean | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 perform | cc |
| 23 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 like | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 such | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 work | amod |
| 27 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 work | amod |
| 28 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 perform | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strong | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 33 strong | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 strong | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 strong | cop |
| 33 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 perform | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 industrious | cc |
| 35 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 strong | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the little garret | a poor woman | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | a poor woman | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | clean | to-infinitive | a poor woman not said here | stoves and chop wood | small pieces | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stove=Patient | |||
| 4 | perform | present | a poor woman not said here | like hard work | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | garret | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | garret not said here | tree rules |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/23/