Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 18

You are only a servant, and before you came I had many like you, some of the goose family, and others of English manufacture.

Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, come, have · To what, where: servant, many

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 servant	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 servant	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 servant	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 family	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 family	cc
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 family	advcl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	ccomp
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 many	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 family	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 family	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 family	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
20	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 family	compound
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 servant	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 manufacture	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 manufacture	cc
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 manufacture	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 manufacture	case
26	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 manufacture	amod
27	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 servant	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	You	a servant and the goose family and English manufacture		tree rules
2	come	past	you			tree rules
3	have	past	I	many	like you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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