Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 213

My father was stocking-weaver to the Court."

Who acts: father · What happens: stock · To what, where: weaver

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 (father), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stocking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stocking	aux
4	stocking	stock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 weaver	punct
6	weaver	weaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stocking	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Court	det
9	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weaver	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stocking	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stock	past · progressive	My father	weaver				to the Court	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weaver=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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