Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 48

Yes, I have had great experience of this kind, but my greatest grief was for the garter--the girdle I meant to say--that jumped into the wash-tub.

Who acts: I, greatest grief, that · What happens: have, be, mean, say, jump, experience · To what, where: great experience, girdle, wash tub, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, greatest grief, that), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 experience	amod
7	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 experience	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 garter	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 garter	cc
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 grief	nmod:poss
14	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 grief	amod
15	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garter	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 garter	cop
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 garter	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garter	det
19	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	parataxis
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 girdle	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girdle	det
22	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garter	conj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 meant	nsubj
24	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 girdle	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 meant	xcomp
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 jumped	punct
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 jumped	nsubj
29	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 say	ccomp
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 tub	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tub	det
32	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tub	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 wash	punct
34	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jumped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	great experience of this kind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient
2	is	past	my greatest grief			for the garter and the girdle	tree rules
3	mean	past	I	the girdle not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	jump	past	that		the wash tub		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tub=Destination
6	experience			this kind			nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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