Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 4

In the meantime, there arrived from the next town a lady; she had a pug dog with her, and came, she said, to dispose of shares in her tan-yard.

Who acts: she, dog · What happens: arrive, have, come, say, dispose · To what, where: lady, meantime, pug dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, dog), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meantime	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 arrived	expl
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 town	amod
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 lady	det
12	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arrived	obl:unmarked
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrived	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dog	det
17	pug	pug	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dog	compound
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 arrived	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dispose	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 dispose	mark
29	dispose	dispose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 shares	case
31	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dispose	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 yard	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 yard	nmod:poss
34	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 yard	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 tan	punct
36	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dispose	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	participle		a lady	the meantime; there	from the next town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location
2	have	past	she	a pug dog		with dog	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
3	come	past					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	dispose	to-infinitive				of shares; in dog's tan yard	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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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