Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 30

The ten coats of mail lay at her feet, she was working hard at the eleventh, while the mob jeered her and said, "See the witch, how she mutters!

Who acts: ten coats, swan, mob · What happens: lay, work, jeer, say, see, mutter · To what, where: feet, swan, witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ten coats, swan, mob), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coats	det
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 coats	nummod
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 mail	case
5	mail	mail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coats	nmod
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 working	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 working	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 working	aux
13	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lay	advcl
14	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 working	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 eleventh	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eleventh	det
17	eleventh	eleventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 working	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 jeered	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 jeered	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mob	det
21	mob	mob	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jeered	nsubj
22	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	advcl
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 jeered	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 jeered	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 See	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 See	punct
28	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 witch	det
30	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 See	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mutters	punct
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 mutters	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 mutters	nsubj
34	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 See	parataxis
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the ten coats of mail		swan's feet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination
2	work	past · progressive	swan			at the eleventh; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eleventh=Theme
3	jeer	past	the mob	swan			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	the mob not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see in a quote	infinitive		the witch			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus
6	mutter speech: assert in a quote	present	swan				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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