Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 29

"Ah, how much good that does, and how it warms me," she said; "it is as good as a hot meal, and not so dear.

Who acts: that, bottle, mother · What happens: do, warm, say, be · To what, where: mother · 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 (that, bottle, mother), 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	_	6 good	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 good	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	amod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warms	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 warms	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 warms	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warms	nsubj
13	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 warms	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 warms	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 good	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 good	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 good	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 good	advmod
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 meal	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 meal	det
27	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 meal	amod
28	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 good	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dear	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dear	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 dear	advmod
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 dear	advmod
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	warm in a quote	present	bottle	mother		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	bottle		as a hot meal; good 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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