Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 57

I saw my poor dead father, and cried till I fell asleep.

Who acts: I · What happens: see, cry, fall · To what, where: poor dead father

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 fell	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	advcl
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	I	my poor dead father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	I not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	I		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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