Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 28
But the sick girl still remained where she was, quietly and patiently she lay all the day long, while her mother was away from home at her work.
Who acts: sick girl, girl, mother · What happens: remain, be, lie, work · To what, where: home
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 (sick girl, girl, mother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 remained | advmod |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 quietly | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 quietly | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quietly | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quietly | punct |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 6 remained | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 13 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 quietly | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 day | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 away | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 away | cop |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 work | nmod:poss |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 away | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the sick girl | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | girl | quietly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | girl | day | patiently property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | past | girl's mother | home | at girl's work; away property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | work | girl | nom work «act intransitive»: 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: «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.
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