Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 61
I was born and brought up there, and used to run about the snow-covered plains."
What happens: bear, bring up, use, run, cover · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 born | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 brought | compound:prt |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 plains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 plains | det |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 snow | punct |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 plains | amod |
| 18 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 run | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | I | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | bring up | participle | there | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | use | past | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | about the covered plains | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about plain=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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