Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 40

Then said the swineherd, "I am afraid I carried this plant away from the forest in my bundle, and it has been burnt to ashes long ago.

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, carry away, burnt · To what, where: swineherd, plant, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 afraid	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	advcl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	ccomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 plant	det
13	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	11 carried	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bundle	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bundle	nmod:poss
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 burnt	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 burnt	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 burnt	nsubj:pass
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 burnt	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 burnt	aux:pass
26	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 ashes	case
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 burnt	obl
29	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 ago	advmod
30	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 burnt	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the swineherd		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent swineherd=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	I				afraid property	tree rules
3	carry away in a quote	past	I	this plant	the forest		in my bundle; away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent plant=Theme from forest=Initial_Location
4	burnt in a quote	present · perfect · passive		swineherd			to ashes; ago 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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