Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 73

The old washerwoman put her head in at the door, and nodded to him quite kindly, and said, "Many thanks, you good child, for your help yesterday.

Who acts: old washerwoman, you, your · What happens: put, nod, say, child, help · To what, where: head, door, Tuk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old washerwoman, you, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 washerwoman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 washerwoman	amod
3	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nodded	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nodded	cc
13	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nodded	obl
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 kindly	advmod
17	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	13 nodded	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thanks	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 thanks	punct
23	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thanks	amod
24	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 child	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 child	nsubj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 child	amod
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thanks	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 help	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 help	nmod:poss
32	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thanks	parataxis
33	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 help	nmod:unmarked
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the old washerwoman	Soroe's head		the door		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in door=Destination
2	nod	past	the old washerwoman not said here		Tuk		kindly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the old washerwoman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	child in a quote		you					tree rules
5	help in a quote		your					nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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