Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 207

She said, "His brother made all the stone and bricks, and sent them to me to build my poor little dwelling, which was a great deal to do for a poor woman like me.

Who acts: mother, brother, poor little dwelling · What happens: say, make, send, build, be, do · To what, where: stone, brothers, mother, poor little dwelling, great deal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, brother, poor little dwelling), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
5	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stone	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bricks	cc
12	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stone	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sent	cc
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sent	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sent	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 build	mark
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sent	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dwelling	nmod:poss
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dwelling	amod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dwelling	amod
24	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 build	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 deal	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 deal	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 deal	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deal	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deal	amod
30	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dwelling	appos
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 deal	acl
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 woman	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 woman	det
35	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 woman	amod
36	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 woman	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past	earth's brother	all stone and bricks			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product
3	send in a quote	past	mother not said here	brothers = brother	mother		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to i=Destination
4	build in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here	my poor little dwelling			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dwelling=Product
5	is a in a quote	past	my poor little dwelling	a great deal			tree rules
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here			for a poor woman like me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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