Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 7

We complied, and she wrote; but in the midst of the "General War-" she struck fast, sighed deeply, and said, "I am only a woman!"

Who acts: We, dog, I · What happens: comply, write, strike, sigh, say, be · To what, where: midst, woman · 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 (We, dog, I), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 complied	nsubj
2	complied	comply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrote	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complied	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 midst	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 midst	det
11	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 War	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 War	det
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 War	punct
15	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 War	nmod:desc
16	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 midst	nmod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 midst	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	nsubj
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complied	conj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 struck	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sighed	punct
23	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 struck	conj
24	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	23 sighed	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 complied	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 woman	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 woman	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 woman	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 woman	det
34	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	ccomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comply	past	We				tree rules
2	write	past	dog				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike	past	dog		the midst of the War General	fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
4	sigh	past	dog not said here			deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: express	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	present	I	a woman			tree rules

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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