Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 59

Oh, he was such a kind, good-hearted man, there are not many like him," and the tears rolled down her cheeks as she spoke.

Who acts: laundress, many, tears, Martha · What happens: be, roll down, speak · To what, where: kind, cheeks · 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 (laundress, many, tears, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 kind	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kind	det
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
11	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 are	expl
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	parataxis
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 are	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 many	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 are	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rolled	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tears	det
24	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rolled	nsubj
25	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 are	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 rolled	compound:prt
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cheeks	nmod:poss
28	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rolled	obj
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	25 rolled	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	laundress	such kind		good hearted man nmod	tree rules
2	be	present	many like laundress		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roll down in a quote	past	the tears	Martha's cheeks			vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=Theme
4	speak speech: other in a quote	past	Martha				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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