Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 131

"Yes, those were happy years when you were with us, although we had no children at first.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: happy years, children

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 years	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 years	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 years	det
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 years	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	amod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 us	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 us	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 us	cop
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 years	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 us	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 children	det
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 first	case
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 years	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		that happy years		tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	you		with us	tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	we	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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