Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 3

Some years have passed since the people who lived here cultivated these fields; they kept three sheep, a pig, and two oxen; in fact they maintained themselves very well, they had quite enough to live upon, as people generally have who are content with their lot.

Who acts: people, fields · What happens: pass, live, cultivate, keep, maintain, have · To what, where: years, fields, three sheep, fact

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 (people, fields), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 years	det
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	aux
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 people	acl:relcl
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lived	advmod
11	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lived	advcl
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cultivated	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sheep	nummod
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kept	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pig	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pig	det
21	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 oxen	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 oxen	cc
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 oxen	nummod
25	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kept	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 maintained	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 fact	case
28	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 maintained	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 maintained	nsubj
30	maintained	maintain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	parataxis
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 maintained	obj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 well	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 maintained	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 maintained	conj
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 enough	advmod
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 live	mark
40	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 live	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 have	mark
44	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 have	nsubj
45	generally	generally	ADV	_	46 have	advmod
46	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 had	conj
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 content	nsubj
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 content	cop
49	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 have	ccomp
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 lot	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 lot	nmod:poss
52	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 content	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present · perfect · passive		some years		since the people		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	live	past	the people		here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cultivate	participle	the people not said here	this fields				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product
4	keep	past	fields = field	three sheep			a pig obl; two oxen obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
5	maintain	past	fields = field	fields = field	fact		well property	vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
6	have	past	fields = field				enough property	tree rules
7	live	to-infinitive	fields = field not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	present	people				generally property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	is	present					with people's lot; content property	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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