Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 86

Martha and the boy enjoyed these good things very much; but the sick woman could only say that the smell was very nourishing, she thought.

Who acts: Martha, sick woman, smell, woman · What happens: enjoy, say, be, think · To what, where: good things · 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 (Martha, sick woman, smell, 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	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 enjoyed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 boy	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Martha	conj
5	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 things	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enjoyed	obj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	5 enjoyed	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 enjoyed	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 nourishing	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 smell	det
21	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nourishing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 nourishing	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 nourishing	advmod
24	nourishing	nourishing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 thought	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nourishing	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	Martha and the boy	this good things		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	could	the sick woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the smell		nourishing property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	woman			vn focus-87.1-1 «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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