Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 28

Then I had no attention, nor any water unless it rained; now, I am watched and taken care of.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: have, rain, watch, take · To what, where: attention, I, care

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 attention	det
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 water	punct
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 water	cc
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	12 rained	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rained	nsubj
12	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 watched	punct
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 watched	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watched	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 watched	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 watched	aux:pass
18	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taken	cc
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 watched	conj
21	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	20 taken	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	no attention	then	any water obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
2	rain a condition, not said to happen	past	it				vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	watch	present · passive		I	now		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	take	participle		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=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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