Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 27

He himself had been wounded, and my mother bound up his arm.

Who acts: father, mother · What happens: be, bind up · To what, where: arm

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wounded	nsubj
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 He	nmod:unmarked
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wounded	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wounded	cop
5	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bound	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bound	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bound	nsubj
10	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wounded	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 bound	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arm	nmod:poss
13	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bound	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	father					wounded property	tree rules
2	bind up	participle	my mother	father's arm					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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