Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 109

He had now become an old man, and was sitting, with his old wife, under an elder-tree in full bloom.

Who acts: boy · What happens: become, sit · To what, where: old man, elder tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sitting	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 become	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tree	punct
18	under	under	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 elder	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 bloom	case
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bloom	amod
25	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past · perfect	boy	a old man			now		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	sit	past · progressive	boy not said here			a elder tree in full bloom		with boy's old wife	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=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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