Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 139

And then she spoke of the dark days of trial, when misfortune had fallen upon them.

Who acts: Martha, misfortune · What happens: speak, fall · 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 (Martha, misfortune), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 spoke	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 days	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 trial	case
10	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 days	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fallen	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 fallen	mark
13	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fallen	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fallen	aux
15	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 spoke	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fallen	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Martha				then; day		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past · perfect	misfortune					upon looks = look	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=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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