Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 5

His mother now came home, for she had been out, and took little Augusta on her arm.

Who acts: mother · What happens: come, be out, take · To what, where: little Augusta, arm

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 (mother), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 been	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 been	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 been	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 been	aux
10	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 been	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Augusta	amod
16	Augusta	Augusta	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 arm	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arm	nmod:poss
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Charles's mother			now	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be out	past · perfect	mother					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	Charles's mother not said here	little Augusta	Augusta's arm			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent augusta=Theme on arm=Destination

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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