Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 97
The wolf-skins that covered the bed in which my mother and Anastasia slept, had been taken from wolves which I had myself shot.
Who acts: wolf skins, mother, I · What happens: cover, sleep, take, have · To what, where: bed, wolf skins, wolves
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 (wolf skins, mother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skins | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skins | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 wolf | punct |
| 4 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 covered | nsubj |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skins | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 covered | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 slept | obl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slept | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Anastasia | cc |
| 14 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mother | conj |
| 15 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 covered | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 skins | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 wolves | case |
| 21 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | obj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wolves | acl:relcl |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 had | obj |
| 26 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | the wolf skins | the bed | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | my mother and Anastasia | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | the wolf skins | wolves | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | I | wolves | 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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