Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 79

Our aunt must needs go; so she borrowed a pair of fur boots of her lodger--boots with fur inside and out, and which reached far up her legs.

Who acts: aunt · What happens: need, go, borrow, reach · To what, where: pair, legs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	aux
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 borrowed	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 borrowed	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 borrowed	nsubj
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pair	det
11	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 boots	case
13	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boots	compound
14	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pair	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 lodger	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lodger	nmod:poss
17	lodger	lodger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 boots	nmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 boots	punct
19	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lodger	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 fur	case
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boots	nmod
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	19 boots	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 out	cc
24	out	out	ADV	_	22 inside	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reached	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reached	cc
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	conj
29	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 reached	advmod
30	up	up	ADP	_	32 legs	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 legs	nmod:poss
32	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reached	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 needs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	must	Our aunt				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	infinitive	Our aunt not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	borrow	past	aunt	a pair of fur boots of aunt's lodger and boots with fur			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
4	reach	past			aunt's legs	far property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent up leg=Path

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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