Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 92

One day she was visiting a nobleman's house in town; my grandmother, I believe, had been the lady's nurse when she was a child.

Who acts: mother, I, One day · What happens: visit, believe, be · To what, where: house, town, grandmother, nurse, child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, One day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nurse	nsubj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 visiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visiting	aux
5	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nobleman	det
7	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 nobleman	case
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visiting	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 town	case
11	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grandmother	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandmother	nmod:poss
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 believe	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 believe	nsubj
17	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grandmother	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 nurse	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 nurse	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nurse	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 lady	case
24	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 child	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 child	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 child	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nurse	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 nurse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	visit	past · progressive	mother	a nobleman's house	town	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent
2	believe	present	I	my grandmother not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus
3	is a	past · perfect	One day	the lady's nurse		tree rules
4	is a	past	mother	a child		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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