Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 37

The fact was, she wickedly meant to keep me in reserve for her own eating in winter, when food would be scarce.

Who acts: fact, food · What happens: mean, keep, be, eat · To what, where: me, reserve

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, food), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fact	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 meant	nsubj
6	wickedly	wickedly	ADV	_	7 meant	advmod
7	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 keep	mark
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 meant	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 keep	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 reserve	case
12	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 eating	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eating	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eating	amod
16	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scarce	punct
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 scarce	mark
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scarce	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 scarce	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 scarce	cop
24	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meant	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	the fact				wickedly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fact not said here	me	reserve	winter	for fact's own eating	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in reserve=Location
3	is	would	food				scarce property	tree rules
4	eat		fact					nom eating «act intransitive»: poss=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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