Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 161

And the old woman curtsied as well as she could; she thought it must be St. Peter himself who spoke to her. "

Who acts: old woman, admission, Peter · What happens: curtsy, think, be, speak · To what, where: old woman, Peter, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. 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, admission, Peter), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
5	curtsied	curtsy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 woman	acl
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 curtsied	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 could	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 could	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 well	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 Peter	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 Peter	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 Peter	cop
17	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Peter	nmod:desc
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thought	ccomp
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 Peter	nmod
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spoke	nsubj
21	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 Peter	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Peter	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Peter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	curtsy	participle		the old woman not said here		well property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the old woman				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	admission	Peter		St. nmod:desc; widow nmod	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	Peter		woman		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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