Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 42

Oh, you poor thing; how you do work, standing there in the water!" she exclaimed. "

Who acts: you, woman · What happens: do, stand, exclaim · To what, where: work, poor thing, water

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 (you, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 do	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 standing	punct
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 exclaimed	advcl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 standing	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exclaimed	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 water	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 exclaimed	nsubj
20	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	you	work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	stand	gerund	woman not said here		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	woman	poor thing not said here	the water	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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