Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 36

At length I was paid away to a poor old woman, who received me as wages for a hard day's work.

Who acts: poor old woman, hard day · What happens: pay away, receive, work · To what, where: I, length, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. 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, hard 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 paid	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 paid	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 woman	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 received	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 received	nsubj
14	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 woman	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 received	obj
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 wages	case
17	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 received	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	23 work	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 work	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 day	case
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 received	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay away	past · passive		I	length	to a poor old woman; away property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	receive	past	a poor old woman	me		as wages; for a hard day's work	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	work		a hard day				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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