Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 99

You used to give me pictures."

Who acts: You · What happens: use, give · To what, where: pictures, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	You						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	give	to-infinitive	You not said here	pictures	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient picture=Theme

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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