Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 62

I carried Anastasia on my back, and we walked very slowly; for my mother was very weak, and it is a long way to the sea, to the Gulf of Lepanto.

Who acts: I, we, mother, back · What happens: carry, walk, be · To what, where: Anastasia, back, long way

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, we, mother, back), 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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 walked	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	parataxis
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 slowly	advmod
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 weak	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 weak	mark
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weak	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 weak	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 weak	advmod
19	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 walked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 way	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 way	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 way	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 way	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 way	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weak	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 way	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Gulf	punct
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 Gulf	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Gulf	det
33	Gulf	Gulf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 weak	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Lepanto	case
35	Lepanto	Lepanto	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Gulf	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	I	Anastasia	my back		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anastasia=Theme
2	walk	past	we			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	my mother			to the Gulf of Lepanto; weak property	tree rules
4	is a	present	back	a long way		to the sea	tree rules

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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