Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 83

I missed my good old mother and the dear little ones; who almost tear me to pieces for sheer love.”

Who acts: I · What happens: miss, tear · To what, where: good old mother, me

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 missed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ones	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mother	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tear	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 tear	nsubj
14	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 tear	advmod
15	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 missed	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tear	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 pieces	case
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tear	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 love	case
20	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 love	compound
21	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 missed	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 missed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	I	my good old mother and the dear little ones					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
2	tear	present		me				to pieces for sheer love result; almost property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to piece=Result

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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