Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 77

I have been that way before, for it leads to the home of my childhood, where, as a little boy, I lived with my grandfather.

Who acts: I, way · What happens: be, lead, live · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 way	cop
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	before	before	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leads	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 leads	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leads	nsubj
10	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 home	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 home	det
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leads	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 childhood	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 childhood	nmod:poss
16	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 home	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 where	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 home	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 boy	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 boy	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leads	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lived	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 lived	nsubj
26	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leads	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 grandfather	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 grandfather	nmod:poss
29	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lived	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	I	that way	before property	tree rules
2	lead	present	way		to the home of my childhood; as a little boy	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to home=Patient
3	live	past	I		with my grandfather	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with grandfather=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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