Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 198

It was her eldest child, also a Little Christina, whom Ib had followed to her home, where she suffered hunger and poverty with her mother.

Who acts: death, child · What happens: be, follow, suffer · To what, where: eldest child, home, hunger

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 (death, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 child	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Christina	punct
7	also	also	ADV	_	10 Christina	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Christina	det
9	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Christina	amod
10	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 child	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 followed	nsubj:pass
13	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 followed	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 followed	aux
15	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 child	acl:relcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 home	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 followed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 suffered	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 suffered	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 suffered	nsubj
22	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 home	acl:relcl
23	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 suffered	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 poverty	cc
25	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunger	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 mother	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 poverty	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	death	child's eldest child and a Little Christina		tree rules
2	follow	past · perfect · passive		child's eldest child and a Little Christina	child's home	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to home=Trajectory
3	suffer	past	child	hunger and poverty with child's mother		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus

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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