Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 77

"Oh, it is the laundress," said he; "she has had a little drop too much.

Who acts: window, laundress, lame · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: laundress, little drop · 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 (window, laundress, lame), 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	_	7 laundress	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 laundress	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laundress	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laundress	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 laundress	det
7	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laundress	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 laundress	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 drop	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 drop	amod
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	window	the laundress	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	laundress		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present · perfect	lame	a little drop	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=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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