Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 225

When I lay sick upon the desolate heath, and no one would have pity on me, and no one would have anything to do with me, except the crows and daws, which came to peck me to bits, he carried me in his arms, and had to bear hard words because of the burden he brought on board ship.

Who acts: I, one, crows, good · What happens: lie, desolate, have, do, come, peck · To what, where: desolate heath, pity, anything, me, arms, hard words

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 (I, one, crows, good), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lay	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 carried	advcl
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 heath	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heath	det
7	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heath	compound
8	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
15	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 anything	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 do	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crows	punct
30	except	except	ADP	_	32 crows	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 crows	det
32	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 daws	cc
34	daws	daw	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 crows	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 crows	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 peck	mark
39	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 came	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 peck	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 bits	case
42	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 peck	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 carried	nsubj
45	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 carried	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 arms	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 arms	nmod:poss
49	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 carried	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 had	cc
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 carried	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 bear	mark
54	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 had	xcomp
55	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 words	amod
56	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 bear	obj
57	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	60 burden	case
58	of	of	ADP	_	57 because	fixed
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 burden	det
60	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bear	obl
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 brought	nsubj
62	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 burden	acl:relcl
63	on	on	ADP	_	65 ship	case
64	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 ship	compound
65	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 brought	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	I		the desolate heath	sick property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon heath=Location
2	desolate	infinitive					tree rules
3	have	would	no one	pity		on me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
4	have	would	no one	anything			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	no one not said here	anything not said here		with me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	the crows and daws				tree rules
7	peck	to-infinitive	the crows and daws not said here	me		to bits result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to bit=Result
8	carry	past	good	me	good's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in arm=Location
9	have	past	good not said here				tree rules
10	bear	to-infinitive	good not said here	hard words		because the burden	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
11	bring	past	good	the burden not said here	board ship		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme on ship=Destination

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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