Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 54

The footman told me the dinner was already cooked, when a letter came to say that the mayor's younger brother in Copenhagen is dead."

Who acts: footman, letter, younger brother · What happens: tell, cook, come, say, be · To what, where: me, dinner · 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 (footman, letter, younger brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 footman	det
2	footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinner	det
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cooked	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cooked	aux:pass
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 cooked	advmod
9	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 letter	det
13	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 dead	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mayor	det
19	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brother	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 mayor	case
21	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 brother	amod
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dead	nsubj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 Copenhagen	case
24	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 brother	nmod
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dead	cop
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 say	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the footman		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cook	past · passive		the dinner			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	come	past	a letter				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a letter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the mayor's younger brother in Copenhagen			dead property	tree rules

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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