Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 52

Bushels of salt have been eaten since then, and people may well be thirsty," and Martha smiled. "

Who acts: people, Martha · What happens: eat, be, smile · To what, where: Bushels

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 (people, Martha), 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	Bushels	bushel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 salt	case
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bushels	nmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 eaten	aux:pass
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	since	since	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 eaten	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thirsty	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thirsty	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thirsty	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 thirsty	aux
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 thirsty	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 thirsty	cop
15	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eaten	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thirsty	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thirsty	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 smiled	cc
19	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 smiled	nsubj
20	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thirsty	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · passive		Bushels of salt		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	may	people		thirsty, well property	tree rules
3	smile in a quote	past	Martha			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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