Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 2

He had now to take care of his little sister Augusta, who was much younger than himself, and he was, besides, to learn his lesson at the same time; but these two things would not do together at all.

Who acts: Charles, little sister, two things · What happens: have, take, be, learn, not do · To what, where: care, lesson, all

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of 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 (Charles, little sister, two things), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 sister	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sister	amod
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
11	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sister	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 younger	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 younger	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 younger	cop
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 younger	advmod
16	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sister	parataxis
17	than	than	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 younger	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 was	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 was	nsubj
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learn	punct
24	besides	besides	INTJ	_	27 learn	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learn	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 learn	mark
27	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lesson	nmod:poss
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 learn	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 learn	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 do	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 do	cc
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 things	det
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 things	nummod
38	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 do	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 do	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 do	advmod
41	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
42	together	together	ADV	_	41 do	advmod
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 all	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 do	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Charles			now		tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	Charles not said here	care			of Charles's little sister	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sister=Initial_Location
3	is	past	Charles's little sister				than Charles; young property	tree rules
4	be	past	Charles					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	learn	to-infinitive	Charles not said here	Charles's lesson		time		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
6	not do	would	this two things		all		together property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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