Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 10

You prayed for him, but it was no good, he was to ride until his limbs were paralysed; but you stole down to him, as I steal now to you, you yourself put little stones under each of his feet that he might have support, nobody saw it, or they pretended not to see it, for you were then the young gracious mistress.

Who acts: You, servant, horse, I, nobody, limbs · What happens: pray, be, paralyse, steal down, steal, put · To what, where: limbs, horse, you, little stones, each, support

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, servant, horse, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 prayed	nsubj
2	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 prayed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 good	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 good	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 prayed	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ride	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ride	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ride	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ride	mark
15	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 good	parataxis
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 paralysed	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 limbs	nmod:poss
18	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 paralysed	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paralysed	aux:pass
20	paralysed	paralyse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ride	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stole	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stole	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 stole	nsubj
24	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 stole	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stole	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 steal	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 steal	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 steal	nsubj
31	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stole	conj
32	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 steal	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 steal	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
37	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 you	nmod
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	conj
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 stones	amod
40	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 put	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	42 each	case
42	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	38 put	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 feet	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 feet	nmod:poss
45	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 each	nmod
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 have	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 have	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 have	aux
49	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 put	advcl
50	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 have	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 saw	punct
52	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	53 saw	nsubj
53	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prayed	parataxis
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 saw	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 pretended	punct
56	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 pretended	cc
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 pretended	nsubj
58	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 saw	conj
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 see	advmod
60	to	to	PART	_	61 see	mark
61	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 pretended	xcomp
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 see	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 mistress	punct
64	for	for	SCONJ	_	71 mistress	mark
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	71 mistress	nsubj
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 mistress	cop
67	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	71 mistress	advmod
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 mistress	det
69	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 mistress	amod
70	gracious	gracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 mistress	amod
71	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 see	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	You					for horse	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme
2	is	past	servant					good property	tree rules
3	is	past	horse					ride property	tree rules
4	paralyse	past · passive		horse's limbs					tree rules
5	steal down	past	you		horse			down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	steal	present	I		you		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	put	past	you	little stones		each			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme under each=Destination
8	have	might	horse	support					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient
9	see	past	nobody	servant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
10	pretend	past	limbs = limb						tree rules
11	not see	to-infinitive	limbs = limb not said here	servant					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
12	is a	past	you	the young gracious mistress			then		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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