Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 42

Every year, as I have been told by my mother, they fall off.

Who acts: mother, roses · What happens: tell, fall off · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, roses), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 year	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fall	nsubj
14	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 fall	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive	my mother	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	fall off	present	roses = rose				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

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