Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 94

"'There is the poor old woman,' said the nobleman; 'it is so difficult for her to walk.'

Who acts: poor old woman · What happens: be, say, walk · To what, where: nobleman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor old woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
3	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nobleman	det
13	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 difficult	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 difficult	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 difficult	expl
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 difficult	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 difficult	advmod
19	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 difficult	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 walk	mark
23	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 difficult	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	the poor old woman		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the nobleman			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present				for mother; difficult property	tree rules
4	walk in a quote	to-infinitive					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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