Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 83
"Poor Sarah," said the neighbors; "she is overcome with hard work and night watching."
Who acts: Poor Sarah, hard work · What happens: say, overcome, watch · To what, where: neighbors, Sarah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Sarah, hard work), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sarah | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sarah | amod |
| 3 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sarah | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sarah | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neighbors | det |
| 8 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overcome | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | aux:pass |
| 13 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 work | case |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 work | amod |
| 16 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 night | cc |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 work | conj |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 work | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Poor Sarah | the neighbors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overcome in a quote | present · passive | Sarah | with hard work and night | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | gerund | hard work and night not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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