Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 81

And so the little china people remained together, and were glad of the grandfather's rivet, and continued to love each other till they were broken to pieces.

Who acts: little china people · What happens: remain, be, continue, love, break · To what, where: each, people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little china people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 remained	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 remained	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
5	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	compound
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remained	nsubj
7	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 remained	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glad	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glad	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	cop
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remained	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 rivet	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grandfather	det
15	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rivet	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 grandfather	case
17	rivet	rivet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glad	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remained	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 love	mark
22	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 continued	xcomp
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	22 love	obj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 broken	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 broken	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 broken	aux:pass
28	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 love	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 broken	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the little china people		together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the little china people not said here		of the grandfather's rivet; glad property	tree rules
3	continue	past	the little china people not said here			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	love	to-infinitive	the little china people not said here	each		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
5	break	past · passive		people	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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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