Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 73

My mother could make fishermen's nets, for which there was a great demand here in the bay; and we lived a long time by the side of the sea, the beautiful sea, that had a taste like tears, and in its colors reminded me of the stag that wept red tears; for sometimes its waters were red, and sometimes green or blue.

Who acts: mother, we, beautiful sea, stag, waters · What happens: make, be, live, have, remind, weep · To what, where: nets, great demand, bay, taste, me, colors

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 (mother, we, beautiful sea, stag), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 nets	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 fishermen	case
7	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 demand	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 was	obl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 demand	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 demand	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 demand	amod
15	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	conj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 demand	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bay	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bay	det
19	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 demand	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lived	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lived	cc
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 lived	nsubj
23	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sea	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sea	amod
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lived	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 had	nsubj
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sea	acl:relcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 taste	det
41	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
42	like	like	ADP	_	43 tears	case
43	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 taste	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 reminded	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 reminded	cc
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 colors	case
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 colors	nmod:poss
48	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 reminded	obl
49	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 reminded	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 stag	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 stag	det
53	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 reminded	obl
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 wept	nsubj
55	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 stag	acl:relcl
56	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 tears	amod
57	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 wept	obj
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 red	punct
59	for	for	SCONJ	_	64 red	mark
60	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	64 red	advmod
61	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 waters	nmod:poss
62	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 red	nsubj
63	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 red	cop
64	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	parataxis
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 green	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 green	cc
67	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	68 green	advmod
68	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 red	conj
69	or	or	CCONJ	_	70 blue	cc
70	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 green	conj
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	My mother	fishermen's nets					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product
2	is a	past	My mother not said here	a great demand		the bay; here			tree rules
3	live	past	we				time	by the side of the sea	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location
4	have	past	the beautiful sea	a taste				like tears	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
5	remind speech: other	past			me	arm's colors		of the stag	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of stag=Topic
6	weep	past	the stag	red tears					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
7	is	past	arm's waters					red, sometimes property	tree rules
8	be		arm's waters not said here					sometimes property	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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