Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 26

"She is going to her little sister," said the woman; "I had but the two children, and it was not an easy thing to support both of them; but the good God helped me in my work, and took one of them to Himself and provided for her.

Who acts: garret, woman, child, good God, my · What happens: go, say, have, not be, support, help · To what, where: two children, easy thing, both, woman, work, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garret, woman, child, good God), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 sister	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sister	amod
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 children	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nummod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 thing	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 thing	advmod
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 support	mark
31	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 thing	acl
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 support	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 both	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 helped	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 helped	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 God	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 God	amod
39	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 helped	nsubj
40	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 helped	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 work	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 work	nmod:poss
44	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 helped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 took	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 took	cc
47	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 took	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 one	nmod
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 Himself	case
52	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 took	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 provided	cc
54	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 took	conj
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 her	case
56	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 provided	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	garret				to garret's little sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	past	the woman = woman	the two children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	not is a in a quote	past	child	a easy thing				tree rules
5	support in a quote	to-infinitive	the woman = woman not said here	both				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus
6	help in a quote	past	the good God		the woman = woman	my work		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
7	take in a quote	past		one of pieces	God			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to himself=Destination
8	provide in a quote	past					for garret	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient
9	work in a quote		my					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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