Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 130

"Ah, yes, and you were a dear, good mistress," said Martha, "I shall never forget how kind you and your husband were to me."

Who acts: you, Martha · What happens: be, say, not forget · To what, where: dear good mistress · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Martha), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	16 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	16 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mistress	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mistress	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 mistress	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mistress	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mistress	det
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mistress	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mistress	amod
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yes	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mistress	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 mistress	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 forget	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 forget	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 forget	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 forget	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 forget	advmod
23	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 kind	advmod
25	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 forget	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 me	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 husband	cc
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husband	nmod:poss
29	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 you	conj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 me	cop
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 kind	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	you	a dear good mistress		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Martha			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not forget in a quote	shall	Martha		kind property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	you		to Martha	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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