Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 118

An old woman sat in her arm chair at the house door, and her granddaughter, a poor and pretty servant-maid came to see her for a short visit.

Who acts: old woman, granddaughter · What happens: sit, come, see · To what, where: arm chair, woman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, granddaughter), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chair	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 chair	nmod:poss
7	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chair	compound
8	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	compound
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 granddaughter	nmod:poss
16	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 maid	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 maid	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 maid	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pretty	cc
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 poor	conj
22	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 maid	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 servant	punct
24	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 granddaughter	conj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 came	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 visit	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 visit	det
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 visit	amod
32	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 see	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a old woman		woman's arm chair	at the house door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
2	come	past	woman's granddaughter and a poor servant maid				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	woman's granddaughter and a poor servant maid not said here	woman		for a short visit	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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