Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 73

And then we had our first little boy, and then Mary, and Nicholas, and Peter, and Christian.'

Who acts: we · What happens: have · To what, where: first little boy

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 boy	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 boy	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Mary	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Mary	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 Mary	advmod
12	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Nicholas	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Nicholas	cc
15	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mary	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Peter	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Peter	cc
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mary	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Christian	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Christian	cc
21	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	we	our first little boy			then	Mary and Nicholas and Peter obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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