Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 69

The limbs of the laundress shook under her, and she said, "I have stood too long in the cold water, and I have had nothing to eat the whole day since the morning.

Who acts: limbs, Martha · What happens: shake, say, stand, have, eat · To what, where: cold water, nothing · 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 (limbs, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 limbs	det
2	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shook	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 laundress	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 laundress	det
5	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 limbs	nmod
6	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shook	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shook	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	aux
17	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 stood	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 water	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
22	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	amod
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 shook	parataxis
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 had	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 nothing	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 day	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 day	amod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eat	obl:unmarked
35	since	since	ADP	_	37 morning	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 morning	det
37	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eat	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the limbs of the laundress				under Martha	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Martha					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand in a quote	present · perfect	Martha		the cold water		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
4	have in a quote	present · perfect	Martha	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Martha not said here	nothing not said here		day; morning		vn eat-39.1-1 «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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