Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 58
But after a while I grew too big for them, and they sent me away to the housekeeper's room; so I came to live on the lower story.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: grow, send, come, live · To what, where: me, lower story
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 grew | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 big | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | nsubj |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sent | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 housekeeper | det |
| 19 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 housekeeper | case |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 live | mark |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 came | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 story | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 story | det |
| 30 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 story | amod |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 live | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | I | while | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | people | me | away property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | the lower story | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on story=Location |
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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