Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 55
"Dead!" cried the laundress, turning pale as death.
Who acts: laundress · What happens: cry, turn
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 (laundress), 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 | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 2 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dead | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 laundress | det |
| 7 | laundress | laundress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 turning | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the laundress | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | the laundress not said here | as death; pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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