Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 46
She was always sitting on my lap, or riding in the goat-skin on my back; and in my dreams she always appeared to me.
Who acts: Anastasia, my · What happens: sit, appear, dream · To what, where: riding, lap, me, dreams
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, my), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sitting | advmod |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lap | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 riding | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 riding | cc |
| 10 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 skin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skin | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 goat | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riding | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 appeared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appeared | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dreams | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 23 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 appeared | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 appeared | advmod |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 appeared | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Anastasia | riding in the goat skin on my back | my lap | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | ||
| 2 | appear | past | Anastasia | me | my dreams | always property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dream=Location | ||
| 3 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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