Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 163

Her godmother had twice written to her, and this year she was expected to visit Interlachen with her two daughters; "but they are old-maids," added Babette, who was only eighteen: "they are nearly thirty."

Who acts: arm, godmother, old maids, Babette · What happens: write, expect, visit, be, add · To what, where: godmother, arm, Interlachen, old maids, Babette, eighteen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, godmother, old maids, Babette), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 godmother	nmod:poss
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 written	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 written	aux
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 written	advmod
5	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 written	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expected	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 expected	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 expected	obl:unmarked
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 expected	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 expected	aux:pass
14	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 written	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 visit	mark
16	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 expected	xcomp
17	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 visit	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 daughters	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughters	nmod:poss
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 daughters	nummod
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 visit	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 added	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 maids	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 maids	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 maids	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 maids	cop
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 maids	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 old	punct
29	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 added	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 maids	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 maids	punct
32	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 written	conj
33	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 added	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eighteen	punct
35	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 eighteen	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 eighteen	cop
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 eighteen	advmod
38	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 Babette	list
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 thirty	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	44 thirty	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 thirty	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 thirty	cop
43	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	44 thirty	advmod
44	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 added	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 written	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	past · perfect · passive		arm's godmother	arm		twice property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to she=Recipient
2	expect	past · passive		arm		year		tree rules
3	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	arm not said here	Interlachen			with arm's two daughters	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interlachen=Co-Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	godmother	old maids				tree rules
5	add speech: assert	past	old maids	Babette				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Patient
6	is a	past	Babette	eighteen				tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	godmother	thirty			nearly property	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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