Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 81

The General's lady was sitting very much wrapped up, and had the bad headache she always had when time hung heavy upon her hands.

Who acts: lady · What happens: sit, wrap up, have, hang · To what, where: bad headache

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 General	det
2	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lady	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 General	case
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 wrapped	advmod
9	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sitting	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 wrapped	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 headache	det
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 headache	amod
16	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 had	advmod
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 headache	acl:relcl
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 hung	advmod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hung	obl:unmarked
22	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	ccomp
23	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hung	xcomp
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 hands	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heavy	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the General's lady				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wrap up	participle	the General's lady not said here				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the General's lady not said here	the bad headache			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient
4	have	past	lady	the bad headache not said here		always property	tree rules
5	hang	past	lady not said here		time	heavy property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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