Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 51

"Yes," said Martha; "I remember you were in service there, and lived in the house when the mayor's parents were alive; how many years ago that is.

Who acts: Martha, you, parents, many years · What happens: say, remember, be, live · To what, where: service, house, many years · 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 (Martha, you, parents, many years), 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 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 remember	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 remember	nsubj
10	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 service	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 service	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 service	case
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remember	ccomp
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 remember	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lived	cc
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 alive	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mayor	det
24	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 parents	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 mayor	case
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 alive	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 alive	cop
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lived	advcl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 years	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 many	advmod
31	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 years	amod
32	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
33	ago	ago	ADV	_	32 years	advmod
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 is	nsubj
35	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 years	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Martha			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	remember in a quote	present	Martha		there			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	you		service			tree rules
4	live in a quote	past	Martha not said here		the house			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
5	is in a quote	past	the mayor's parents				alive property	tree rules
6	does in a quote	present	many years	many years not said here				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot year=Theme

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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