Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 30

Just as the mother was going to her work, the sick girl fixed her gaze on the lowest pane of the window--"Mother," she exclaimed, "what can that little green thing be that peeps in at the window?

Who acts: mother, sick girl, girl · What happens: go, fix, exclaim, be, work, gaze · To what, where: work, gaze, lowest pane, window · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, sick girl, girl), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fixed	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 work	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fixed	nsubj
14	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 gaze	nmod:poss
16	gaze	gaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fixed	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 pane	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pane	det
19	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 pane	amod
20	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fixed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 window	det
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pane	nmod
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 Mother	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Mother	punct
26	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pane	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 exclaimed	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 exclaimed	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 exclaimed	nsubj
30	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fixed	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 exclaimed	obj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 peeps	aux
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 be	mark
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thing	amod
37	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thing	amod
38	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 be	nsubj
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 peeps	cop
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 peeps	nsubj
41	peeps	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADV	_	41 peeps	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 window	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 window	det
45	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 peeps	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the mother		mother's work		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
2	fix	past	the sick girl	mother's gaze	the lowest pane of the window and Mother		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gaze=Patient
3	exclaim speech: express	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	is in a quote	can			the window	peep property	tree rules
5	work		mother				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
6	gaze		mother				nom gaze «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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