Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 36

"'And I often cried about you, for I was afraid lest you were drowned and lying at the bottom of the sea.

Who acts: mother · What happens: cry, be, drown, lie · To what, where: you, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
3	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 afraid	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	advcl
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	17 drowned	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 drowned	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 drowned	aux:pass
17	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 afraid	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lying	cc
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 drowned	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 sea	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bottom	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	mother			about you; often property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	mother			afraid property	tree rules
3	drown in a quote	past · passive		you			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	lie in a quote	gerund			the bottom of the sea		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=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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