Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 70

I place them before the little ones, who cry over them as papa and mamma used to cry thirty years ago.

Who acts: little ones · What happens: cry, use · To what, where: Plays, mamma

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ones), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 place	nsubj
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 place	nmod
4	before	before	ADP	_	7 ones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 place	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cry	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cry	nsubj
10	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ones	acl:relcl
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 them	advmod
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cry	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 papa	case
14	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cry	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 mamma	cc
16	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 papa	conj
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 mamma	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cry	mark
19	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	xcomp
20	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ago	obl:unmarked
22	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 cry	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	the little ones	Plays = play	as papa and mamma	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	participle		mamma not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive			ago property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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