Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 148
I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have not been able to make myself better off; and it was God's will.
Who acts: I, myself, linen · What happens: scrub, wash, not be, make, better off, be · To what, where: myself
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 (I, myself, linen), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 scrubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrubbed | aux |
| 3 | scrubbed | scrub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 washed | cc |
| 5 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 scrubbed | conj |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 coarse | advmod |
| 7 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 washed | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 linen | cc |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 linen | amod |
| 10 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coarse | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 scrubbed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | better | better | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 better | compound:prt |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 will | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 God | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 God | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 God | cop |
| 27 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 will | nsubj |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 God | case |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scrubbed | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scrubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrub | present · perfect | I | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wash | participle | I not said here | coarse property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | present · perfect | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | better off | infinitive | myself not said here | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is | past | linen | 's God | 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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