Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 155

It was too late; a surgeon had been sent for to open a vein in her arm, but the poor woman was dead.

Who acts: messenger, poor woman · What happens: be, send, open · To what, where: surgeon, vein, arm

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 (messenger, poor woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sent	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 surgeon	det
7	surgeon	surgeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sent	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 sent	aux:pass
10	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 late	conj
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 open	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 open	mark
13	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sent	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vein	det
15	vein	vein	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 arm	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arm	nmod:poss
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 open	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dead	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 dead	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dead	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 late	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	messenger			late property	tree rules
2	send	past · perfect · passive		a surgeon			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	open	to-infinitive		a vein	banns's arm		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent vein=Theme in arm=Location
4	is	past	the poor woman			dead property	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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