Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 52

In the middle of the room sat the old woman who had the management of the whole, and who knew accurately about every egg that was laid, and about every chicken that could creep out of an egg.

Who acts: old woman, chicken · What happens: sit, have, know, lay, creep out · To what, where: old woman, middle, management, egg

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. 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, chicken), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woman	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 management	det
14	management	management	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 whole	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 whole	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 management	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
22	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	21 knew	advmod
23	about	about	ADV	_	25 egg	advmod
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 egg	det
25	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 laid	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 laid	aux:pass
28	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 egg	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 chicken	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 chicken	cc
31	about	about	ADV	_	33 chicken	advmod
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 chicken	det
33	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	conj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 creep	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 creep	aux
36	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 chicken	acl:relcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	40 egg	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 egg	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 egg	det
40	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 creep	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past		the old woman	the middle of the room		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme in middle=Location
2	have	past	the old woman	the management of the whole			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent management=Patient
3	know	past		every egg		accurately property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	lay	past · passive		every egg			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
5	creep out	could	every chicken	a egg			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location egg=Theme

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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