Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 84

Before evening, she was sitting in the poor little room with the laundress.

Who acts: mother · What happens: sit · To what, where: poor little room

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 (mother), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 evening	case
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 evening	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 laundress	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 laundress	det
14	laundress	laundress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	mother			the poor little room with the laundress	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location

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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