Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 214

Ib was to her both father and mother; her own parents had vanished from her memory, as a dream-picture vanishes alike from childhood and age.

Who acts: Ib, own parents, dream picture · What happens: be, vanish · To what, where: memory, childhood

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 (Ib, own parents, dream picture), 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 father	cop
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
5	both	both	CCONJ	_	6 father	cc:preconj
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mother	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 vanished	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 parents	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 parents	amod
12	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 vanished	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vanished	aux
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 father	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 memory	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 memory	nmod:poss
17	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vanished	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 vanishes	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 vanishes	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 picture	det
21	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 picture	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dream	punct
23	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vanishes	nsubj
24	vanishes	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 vanished	conj
25	alike	alike	ADV	_	24 vanishes	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 childhood	case
27	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 vanishes	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 age	cc
29	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 childhood	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ib		to Christina's father and mother	tree rules
2	vanish	past · perfect	Christina's own parents	Christina's memory		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from memory=Initial_Location
3	vanish	present	a dream picture	childhood and age	alike property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from childhood=Initial_Location

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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