Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 87
She would be industrious, she said, and do everything that she could; she did not mind about the wages as long as she had a roof over her, and was with good people.
Who acts: Karen · What happens: be, say, do, not mind, have · To what, where: everything, roof · 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 (Karen), 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 | 4 industrious | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 industrious | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 industrious | cop |
| 4 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 industrious | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 could | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 mind | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mind | advmod |
| 19 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 industrious | parataxis |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 wages | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wages | det |
| 22 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mind | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 mind | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 had | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 roof | det |
| 29 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 roof | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 people | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 people | cc |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 people | cop |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 people | amod |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mind | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 industrious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Karen | industrious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Karen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not mind | past · do-support | Karen | about the wages; long property | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Karen | a roof | over Mercy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | |||
| 6 | is | past | with good people | tree rules |
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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