Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 87

She was very old and almost bent double.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, bend

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 old	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bent	cc
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 bent	advmod
7	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	conj
8	double	double	ADV	_	7 bent	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	woman					old property	tree rules
2	bend	participle	woman not said here					almost, double property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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