Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 8

"There goes the old washerwoman up the lane," said the mother, as she looked out of the window; "the poor woman can hardly drag herself along, and now she had to drag a pail of water from the well.

Who acts: mother, poor woman · What happens: go, say, look out, drag, have · To what, where: old washerwoman, window, mother, pail, well · 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 (mother, poor woman), 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 goes	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 goes	expl
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 washerwoman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 washerwoman	amod
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	9 lane	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lane	det
9	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 washerwoman	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 looked	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 window	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 window	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 drag	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 drag	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 woman	amod
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drag	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 drag	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	30 drag	advmod
30	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 looked	conj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 drag	obj
32	along	along	ADV	_	30 drag	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 had	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 drag	mark
39	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 pail	det
41	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drag	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 water	case
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pail	nmod
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 well	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 well	det
46	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drag	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present		the old washerwoman	there		up the lane	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look out	past	mother	the window				tree rules
4	drag in a quote	can	the poor woman	mother			along, hardly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
5	have in a quote	past	mother			now		tree rules
6	drag in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a pail of water	the well			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pail=Theme from well=Initial_Location

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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