Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 127

When we arose, I saw my mother standing by the church door, weeping.

Who acts: we, I, mother · What happens: arise, see, stand, weep · To what, where: mother

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arose	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 arose	nsubj
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 mother	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 standing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 weeping	punct
15	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 saw	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arise	past	we			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	I	my mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	stand	gerund	my mother not said here		by the church door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
4	weep	gerund	I not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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