The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 39

‘I was born and bred there on the snow-fields.’

What happens: bear, breed · To what, where: I, snow fields

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 born	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bred	cc
6	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 born	conj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 bred	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 fields	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fields	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fields	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 snow	punct
12	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bred	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		I					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	breed	participle				the snow fields; there			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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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