Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 114

"They're going about with him still," said a hoary old maid of a Carp, who carried her misfortune about with her, so that she was quite hoarse.

Who acts: paper, hoary old maid, maid · What happens: go about, say, carry, be · To what, where: misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (paper, hoary old maid, maid), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	obl
8	still	still	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 maid	det
13	hoary	hoary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maid	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maid	amod
15	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Carp	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Carp	det
18	Carp	Carp	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 maid	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 carried	nsubj
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 misfortune	nmod:poss
23	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obj
24	about	about	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hoarse	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 hoarse	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hoarse	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hoarse	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 hoarse	advmod
33	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 carried	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go about in a quote	present · progressive	paper		still	with lot; about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with he=Instrument
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	carry	past	a hoary old maid of a Carp	maid's misfortune		with Barbel; about property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme
4	is	past	maid			hoarse property	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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