Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 50

At last he came to the town where his nurse lived, who had carried him in her arms when he was a very little boy, and had always been kind to him.

Who acts: Hjalmar, nurse · What happens: come, live, carry, be · To what, where: last, Hjalmar, arms, little boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hjalmar, nurse), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 lived	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nurse	nmod:poss
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 carried	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	aux
15	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lived	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 arms	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arms	nmod:poss
19	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obl
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 boy	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 boy	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 boy	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 little	advmod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kind	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kind	cc
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 kind	aux
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 kind	advmod
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 kind	cop
32	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kind	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Hjalmar			last	to the town	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
2	live	past	Hjalmar's nurse					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		Hjalmar		nurse's arms		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value
4	is a	past	Hjalmar	a little boy				tree rules
5	is	past · perfect	Hjalmar not said here		Hjalmar		always, kind property	tree rules

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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