Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 47

"And so he spoke to you in that way, did he, my child?" said the washer-woman, and her lips trembled as she spoke. "

Who acts: Many, washer woman, lips, woman · What happens: speak, do, child, say, tremble · To what, where: you, way · 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 (Many, washer woman, lips, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 spoke	cc
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 spoke	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	nsubj
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 spoke	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 child	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 child	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 child	nmod:poss
16	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
21	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 woman	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 washer	punct
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trembled	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 trembled	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lips	nmod:poss
27	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 trembled	nsubj
28	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 spoke	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 spoke	nsubj
31	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 trembled	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 trembled	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	past	Many	you	that way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
2	do in a quote	past	Many not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	child in a quote		Many			tree rules
4	say speech: ask	past	the washer woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tremble	past	woman's lips			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	speak speech: other	past	woman			vn talk-37.5 «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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