Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 74
The laundress slipped and tottered through the lane, and round the corner, into the street where the mayor lived; and just as she reached the front of his house, she sank down upon the pavement.
Who acts: laundress, mayor, woman · What happens: slip, totter, live, reach, sink down · To what, where: lane, front
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, mayor, woman), 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 laundress | det |
| 2 | laundress | laundress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tottered | cc |
| 5 | tottered | totter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 lane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lane | det |
| 8 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tottered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 corner | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 corner | cc |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 street | punct |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 corner | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mayor | det |
| 20 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 street | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 reached | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reached | cc |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 reached | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 reached | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 front | det |
| 29 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 house | nmod:poss |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 front | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sank | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sank | nsubj |
| 35 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 reached | advcl |
| 36 | down | down | ADV | _ | 35 sank | advmod |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 pavement | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pavement | det |
| 39 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sank | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | the laundress | round the corner and the street | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | totter | past | the laundress not said here | the lane | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through lane=Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the mayor | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | woman | the front of mayor's house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent front=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sink down | past | woman | upon the pavement; down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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