Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 3

They were not brother and sister, but they loved each other almost as much as if they had been.

Who acts: children · What happens: not be, love, be · To what, where: brother, each

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brother	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brother	advmod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sister	cc
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 loved	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 loved	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brother	acl:relcl
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 loved	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 loved	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 been	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 been	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 been	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 been	aux
20	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 much	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not is a	past	children = child	brother and sister	tree rules
2	love	past	children = child	each	tree rules
3	be	past · perfect	children = child		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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