Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 181
She had been sitting in her arm-chair, telling us a long, beautiful tale; and when it was finished, she said she was tired, and leaned her head back to sleep awhile.
Who acts: GRANDMOTHER · What happens: sit, tell, finish, say, be, learn back · To what, where: arm chair, long beautiful tale, us, tale, head · 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 (GRANDMOTHER), 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 | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chair | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chair | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 arm | punct |
| 9 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 telling | punct |
| 11 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sitting | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 telling | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tale | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tale | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tale | amod |
| 17 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 telling | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 finished | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 finished | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 finished | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 finished | aux:pass |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sitting | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 finished | parataxis |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tired | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 tired | cop |
| 29 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 leaned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 leaned | cc |
| 32 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | conj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leaned | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 leaned | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 sleep | mark |
| 37 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 leaned | advcl |
| 38 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 37 sleep | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect · progressive | GRANDMOTHER | GRANDMOTHER's arm chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | GRANDMOTHER not said here | a long beautiful tale | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 3 | finish | past · passive | tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | GRANDMOTHER | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | GRANDMOTHER | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | learn back | past | GRANDMOTHER not said here | GRANDMOTHER's head | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 7 | sleep | to-infinitive | GRANDMOTHER not said here | awhile property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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