Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 92

In the latter time, therefore, she used to have in a little child "for the scraps;" that is to say, to eat up the remains of the dinner.

Who acts: aunt, that · What happens: use, have, be, eat up · To what, where: remains

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, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 used	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 child	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 child	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 scraps	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 scraps	det
19	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 say	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 say	nsubj:outer
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 say	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 used	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eat	punct
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 say	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 eat	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 remains	det
31	remains	remains	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 eat	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 dinner	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dinner	det
34	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remains	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	aunt		time	therefore property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	have	to-infinitive	aunt not said here			in a little child; for the scraps	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that			say property	tree rules
4	eat up	to-infinitive	that not said here	the remains of the dinner			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remains=Patient

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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