Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 20

I was a little boy, and had accompanied my father to the old man's house.

Who acts: I, little boy · What happens: be, accompany · To what, where: little boy, father, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, little boy), 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	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 accompanied	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 accompanied	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 accompanied	aux
9	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 boy	acl:relcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accompanied	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	17 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accompanied	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a little boy					tree rules
2	accompany	past · perfect	a little boy not said here	my father		the old man's house			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme to house=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: «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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