Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 11

He had food, and he could also do something towards earning his living; he took care of Mary's red cow, for he knew how to tend cattle and make himself useful.

Who acts: boy, red cow · What happens: have, do, earn, take, know, tend · To what, where: food, something, living, care, cattle, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, red cow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 do	obj
11	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	12 earning	mark
12	earning	earn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 do	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 living	nmod:poss
14	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 earning	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 cow	case
20	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cow	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Mary	case
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cow	amod
23	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 care	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 tend	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tend	mark
30	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 knew	ccomp
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tend	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tend	conj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 make	obj
35	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 make	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	food		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	do	could	boy	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	earn	gerund	boy not said here	boy's living		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
4	take	past	boy	care of Mary's red cow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	know	past	boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	tend	to-infinitive		cattle		vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
7	make	infinitive		boy	useful property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
8	live		boy			nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
9	care		Mary's red cow			nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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