Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 47

Now the old lady fell ill, and it was said that she would not rise from her bed again.

Who acts: old lady, lady · What happens: fall, say, not rise · To what, where: cupboard, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lady, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux:pass
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fell	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 rise	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rise	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rise	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 rise	advmod
16	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bed	nmod:poss
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rise	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	16 rise	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the old lady			now	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · passive		cupboard				tree rules
3	not rise	would	lady		lady's bed	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bed=Initial_Location

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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