Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 114

She had never stolen her neighbor's goods; but as a little girl she had caused eggs and young birds to be taken from the trees, and she thought of that now.

Who acts: couple · What happens: not steal, cause, take, think · To what, where: goods, eggs, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stolen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 stolen	advmod
4	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neighbor	nmod:poss
6	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goods	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 neighbor	case
8	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 stolen	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 caused	cc
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 girl	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 caused	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 caused	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caused	aux
17	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stolen	conj
18	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 birds	cc
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 birds	amod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eggs	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 taken	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 taken	aux:pass
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 caused	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 trees	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taken	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stolen	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 that	case
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 thought	obl
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 thought	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stolen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steal	past · perfect	couple	couple's neighbor's goods				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goods=Theme
2	cause	past · perfect	couple	eggs and young birds			as a little girl	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition egg=Patient
3	take	to-infinitive · passive	couple not said here		the trees			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from tree=Initial_Location
4	think speech: other	past	couple			now	of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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