--- title: "There goes the old washerwoman up the lane," said the mother, as sh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:80:8 # text = "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. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 washerwoman washerwoman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 lane lane NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 31 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obj _ _ 32 along along ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 pail pail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/9/) - ↑ back to [Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/)