Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 14

They lived quite retired and very happily; and as they had no children of their own, they had adopted a little common snail, which they brought up as their own child.

Who acts: snails · What happens: live, have, adopt, bring up · To what, where: children, snails, little common snail

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snails), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 retired	advmod
4	retired	retired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lived	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happily	cc
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 happily	advmod
7	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 retired	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 adopted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 adopted	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 adopted	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 own	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 own	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 children	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 adopted	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 adopted	aux
21	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 snail	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 snail	amod
24	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 snail	amod
25	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 adopted	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 brought	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 snail	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 brought	compound:prt
31	as	as	ADP	_	34 child	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 child	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 child	amod
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	snails = snail		retired property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	snails = snail	no children of snails's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	adopt	past · perfect · passive		snails = snail		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme snail=Attribute
4	bring up	past	snails = snail	a little common snail	as snails's own child	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent which=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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