Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 12

The old man was gone, and her child--it was gone too!--the old man had taken it with him.

Who acts: old man, child · What happens: be, take · To what, where: child

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, child), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 child	nmod:poss
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
13	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	parataxis
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 taken	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 gone	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taken	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 taken	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man		gone property	tree rules
2	is	past	head's child		gone property	tree rules
3	take	past · perfect	the old man	child	with God	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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