Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 38
She was a good old maiden lady! she lived yonder, behind the Exchange.
Who acts: other, good old maiden lady · What happens: be, live · To what, where: good old maiden lady, Exchange
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, good old maiden lady), 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 | 7 lady | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lady | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 lady | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Exchange | punct |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 Exchange | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Exchange | det |
| 15 | Exchange | Exchange | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | other | a good old maiden lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a good old maiden lady | the Exchange | yonder property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind exchange=Location |
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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