Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 27
I and my husband have built a nest in one of these pots, and all our young ones, who have now flown away, were brought up there.
What happens: build, fly away, bring up · To what, where: I, young ones
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. 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 | 6 built | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 built | cc |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 husband | nmod:poss |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 built | aux |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 built | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pots | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 pots | det |
| 13 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ones | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ones | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ones | det:predet |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ones | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 built | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flown | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 flown | aux |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 flown | advmod |
| 24 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ones | parataxis |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 flown | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brought | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brought | aux:pass |
| 28 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 flown | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADV | _ | 30 there | advmod |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 brought | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present · perfect · passive | I | in one of this pots | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product | ||||
| 2 | fly away | present · perfect · passive | our young ones | now | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring up | past · passive | there | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» |
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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