Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 89

Just as she came close up to them, her foot slipped and she fell to the ground screaming loudly; poor old woman, she had broken her leg!

Who acts: woman, foot · What happens: come, slip, fall, scream, break · To what, where: poor old woman, leg

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, foot), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 them	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foot	nmod:poss
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	nsubj
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fell	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
19	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fell	advcl
20	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	19 screaming	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 woman	punct
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 broken	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 broken	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 broken	aux
28	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 woman	acl:relcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 leg	nmod:poss
30	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 broken	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	woman	poor old woman	up twigs = twig; close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up they=Initial_Location
2	slip	past	woman's foot			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	fall	past	woman		to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	scream speech: express	gerund	woman not said here		loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	break	past · perfect	woman	woman's leg		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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