Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 60

It was certainly a smaller room than those up stairs; but I was more comfortable; for I was not being continually taken hold of and pulled about by the children as I had been.

Who acts: housekeeper, I · What happens: be, take, not be, pull about · To what, where: smaller room, taken hold

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 (housekeeper, I), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 room	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 room	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 room	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 stairs	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 stairs	det
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 those	compound:prt
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 room	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 comfortable	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 comfortable	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 comfortable	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 comfortable	cop
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 comfortable	advmod
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hold	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 hold	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hold	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hold	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 hold	advmod
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 hold	cop
23	continually	continually	ADV	_	24 taken	advmod
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hold	amod
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comfortable	conj
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 pulled	mark
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pulled	cc
28	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hold	acl
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 pulled	advmod
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 children	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 children	det
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pulled	obl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 been	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 been	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 been	aux
36	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 pulled	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 room	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	housekeeper	a smaller room	than that stairs; certainly property	tree rules
2	is	past	I		comfortable property	tree rules
3	take	participle			continually property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	past	I	taken hold		tree rules
5	pull about	participle		taken hold not said here	by the children; about property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	past · perfect	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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