Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 185
This little girl brought me up here; but I am a stranger in this city.
Who acts: little girl, I · What happens: bring up, be · To what, where: me, stranger, city
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 (little girl, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 brought | compound:prt |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 brought | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stranger | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stranger | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stranger | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stranger | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stranger | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | this little girl | me | here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a stranger | this city | 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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