Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 24
This time he brought, under his sheep-skin cloak, a little child, a little half-naked girl.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring
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 (father), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cloak | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sheep | punct |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | compound |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 child | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 girl | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 girl | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 half | punct |
| 21 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girl | amod |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cloak | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | father | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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