Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Beginning, sentence 12

The elder one, who was named Care, looked rather gloomy; she always goes about to perform her own business in person; for then she knows it is properly done.

Who acts: elder one, Care · What happens: name, look, go about, perform, know, do · To what, where: elder one, own business, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Beginning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder one, Care), 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 one	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 named	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 named	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 named	aux:pass
7	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 one	acl:relcl
8	Care	Care	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 named	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 gloomy	advmod
12	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looked	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 goes	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 goes	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 goes	advmod
16	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 goes	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 perform	mark
19	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 goes	advcl
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 business	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 business	amod
22	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perform	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 person	case
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 perform	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 knows	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 then	case
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 knows	obl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knows	nsubj
29	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 done	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux:pass
32	properly	properly	ADV	_	33 done	advmod
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 knows	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the elder one		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past	the elder one		gloomy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	go about	present	Care		about, always property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	perform	to-infinitive	Care not said here	Care's own business	in person	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme
5	know	present	Care			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	present · passive		business	properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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