Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 125

And the General's lady sat on her sofa and smiled at them, even when she had her severest headache.

Who acts: lady · What happens: sit, smile, have · To what, where: sofa, severest headache

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 General	det
3	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lady	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 General	case
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sofa	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sofa	nmod:poss
9	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smiled	cc
11	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smiled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 had	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 headache	nmod:poss
20	severest	severe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 headache	amod
21	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the General's lady		lady's sofa		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
2	smile	past	the General's lady not said here			at tragedy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	lady	lady's severest headache			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient

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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