Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 41
She was a friend of the laundress, and was called, among the neighbors, "Lame Martha, with the curl." "
Who acts: woman, friend · What happens: be, call · To what, where: friend, neighbors · 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 (woman, friend), 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 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friend | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 laundress | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 laundress | det |
| 7 | laundress | laundress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 friend | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 neighbors | punct |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 neighbors | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbors | det |
| 15 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Martha | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Martha | punct |
| 18 | Lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Martha | amod |
| 19 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 neighbors | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 curl | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 curl | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 curl | det |
| 23 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 curl | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 curl | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 curl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | woman | a friend | of the laundress | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a friend not said here | the neighbors Lame Martha | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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