Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 92

She laid good eggs, and her mistress loved her as if she had been her own child.

Who acts: hen, mistress · What happens: lay, love, be · To what, where: good eggs, hen

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hen, mistress), 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	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eggs	amod
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 laid	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loved	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mistress	nmod:poss
8	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 loved	obj
11	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 child	case
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 as	fixed
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 child	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 child	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 child	cop
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	hen	good eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	love	past	hen's mistress	hen		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	is	past · perfect	hen		as hen's own child	tree rules

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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