Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 13

There was no one under whose care he could leave Little Christina; so she was almost always with him in his boat, or playing in the wood among the blossoming heath, or picking the ripe wild berries.

Who acts: one, gentleman, forest · What happens: be, leave, play, blossom, pick, care · To what, where: Little, boat, wood, ripe wild berries

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, gentleman, forest), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 care	case
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 care	nmod:poss
7	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leave	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	aux
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 care	acl:relcl
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leave	obj
12	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Little	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 boat	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	23 boat	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 boat	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 boat	cop
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 always	advmod
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 boat	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 always	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 boat	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boat	nmod:poss
23	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 playing	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 playing	cc
26	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 boat	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wood	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wood	det
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obl
30	among	among	ADP	_	33 heath	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heath	det
32	blossoming	blossom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 heath	amod
33	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 picking	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 picking	cc
36	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 playing	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 berries	det
38	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 berries	amod
39	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 berries	amod
40	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 picking	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no one under no one under no one's care's care		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	could	gentleman	Little			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
3	is	past	forest		gentleman's boat	always property	tree rules
4	play	gerund	forest not said here		the wood	among the blossoming heath	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	blossom	gerund					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	pick	gerund	forest not said here	the ripe wild berries			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
7	care		no one under no one under care's care				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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