Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 237

Perhaps they talked of him who, as a little boy, had taken away their eggs and their young; of the peasant's son, who had to wear an iron garter, and of the noble young lady, who ended by being a ferryman's wife.

Who acts: birds, son, noble young lady · What happens: talk, take away, have, wear, end, be · To what, where: eggs, iron garter

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 (birds, son, noble young lady), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talked	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 talked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 boy	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taken	punct
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 talked	parataxis
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 taken	advmod
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eggs	nmod:poss
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 taken	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 young	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 young	nmod:poss
20	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 son	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 son	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 peasant	det
24	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 peasant	case
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 son	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 wear	mark
31	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 garter	det
33	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 garter	amod
34	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wear	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lady	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lady	cc
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 lady	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lady	det
39	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 lady	amod
41	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ended	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 ended	nsubj
44	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 lady	acl:relcl
45	by	by	ADP	_	50 wife	case
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 wife	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 ferryman	det
48	ferryman	ferryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wife	nmod:poss
49	's	's	PART	_	48 ferryman	case
50	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ended	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk	past	birds = bird		of Jutland; as a little boy; perhaps property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent who=Patient
2	take away	past · perfect		birds's eggs	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	have	past	the peasant's son			tree rules
4	wear	to-infinitive	the peasant's son not said here	a iron garter		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent garter=Theme
5	end	past	the noble young lady			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	is	gerund			by a ferryman's wife	tree rules

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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