Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 206

Then the poor soul, the old mother who had lived in the house on the dyke, pleaded for him.

Who acts: old mother, poor soul · What happens: live, plead · To what, where: house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mother, poor soul), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 pleaded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soul	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soul	amod
4	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pleaded	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soul	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	aux
11	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 mother	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 dyke	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dyke	det
17	dyke	dyke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pleaded	punct
19	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pleaded	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past · perfect	the old mother			the house		on the dyke	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2	plead speech: request	past	the poor soul				then	for earth	tree rules

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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