Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 48

She remembered the day when, unobserved by her father and mother, she had gone down to the porter's wife who lay dying.

Who acts: girl, wife · What happens: remember, unobserv, go down, lie, die

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 (girl, wife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obl:unmarked
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 unobserved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unobserved	punct
7	unobserved	unobserv	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 remembered	advcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unobserved	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 remembered	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 gone	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	22 wife	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 porter	det
20	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 porter	case
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wife	acl:relcl
25	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 lay	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	girl	day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	unobserv	participle	girl not said here		by girl's father and mother	tree rules
3	go down	past · perfect	girl		to the porter's wife; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	lie	past	the porter's wife			tree rules
5	die	gerund	the porter's wife not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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