Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 31

Anastasia, as she was called, was to be my sister, because her father had been united to mine by an old custom, which we still follow.

Who acts: Anastasia, old custom, we · What happens: call, be, unite, follow · To what, where: Anastasia, sister, father, mine, old custom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Anastasia, old custom, we), 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	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sister	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Anastasia	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Anastasia	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sister	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	12 sister	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sister	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 united	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 united	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 united	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 united	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 united	aux:pass
19	united	unite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sister	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 mine	case
21	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 united	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 custom	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 custom	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 custom	amod
25	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 united	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 follow	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 follow	obj
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 follow	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 follow	advmod
30	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 custom	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	call	past · passive	Anastasia not said here	Anastasia			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	Anastasia	my sister			tree rules
3	unite	past · perfect · passive	a old custom	Anastasia's father	mine		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to my=Co-Patient
4	follow	present	we	a old custom		still	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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