Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 78
Bone for bone,' I thought; but they were so angry, and from that time I have been fastened with a chain, and lost my bone.
Who acts: Bone, bones · What happens: think, be, fasten, lose · To what, where: I, bone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bone, bones), 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 | Bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 bone | case |
| 3 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bone | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 angry | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 angry | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 angry | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 angry | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 angry | advmod |
| 13 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fastened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fastened | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fastened | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fastened | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fastened | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 fastened | aux:pass |
| 22 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 angry | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 chain | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chain | det |
| 25 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fastened | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lost | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lost | cc |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bone | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lost | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Bone for bone | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | bones = bone | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fasten | present · perfect · passive | I | time | with a chain | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with chain=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | lose | past | my bone | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Eventuality |
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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