Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 89

My mother obtained a living by making bottle-cases of bark and skins, and I kept the sheep belonging to the priests, who were sometimes peasants, while I had for my playfellows Anastasia and the turtles.

Who acts: mother, I, sheep, priests · What happens: obtain, make, keep, belong, be, have · To what, where: living, bottle cases, sheep, peasants

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, I, sheep, priests), 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	3 obtained	nsubj
3	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 living	det
5	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 obtained	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 making	mark
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 obtained	advcl
8	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cases	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bottle	punct
10	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 making	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bark	case
12	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cases	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skins	cc
14	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bark	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obtained	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obj
21	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 kept	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 priests	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 priests	det
24	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 belonging	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 peasants	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 peasants	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 peasants	cop
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 peasants	advmod
29	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 priests	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 had	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 playfellows	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 playfellows	nmod:poss
36	playfellows	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	obl
37	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 playfellows	appos
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 turtles	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 turtles	det
40	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 Anastasia	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	obtain	past	My mother	a living		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
2	make	gerund	My mother not said here	bottle cases of bark and skins		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset case=Product
3	keep	past	I	the sheep		tree rules
4	belong	gerund	the sheep not said here		to the priests and peasants	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	the priests and peasants	peasants	sometimes property	tree rules
6	have	past	I		for my playfellows	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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