--- title: My mother obtained a living by making bottle-cases of bark and skins… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: My mother obtained a living by making bottle-cases of bark and skins, and I kept the sheep belonging to the priests, who were sometimes peasants, while I had for my playfellows Anastasia and the turtles. Who acts: mother, I, sheep, priests. 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C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I, sheep, priests), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:36:89 # text = My mother obtained a living by making bottle-cases of bark and skins, and I kept the sheep belonging to the priests, who were sometimes peasants, while I had for my playfellows Anastasia and the turtles. 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 obtained obtain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 by by SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 8 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 priests priest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 29 advmod _ _ 29 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 playfellows playfellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 Anastasia Anastasia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obtain** | past | My mother | a living | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | | 2 | **make** | gerund | My mother *not said here* | bottle cases of bark and skins | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset case=Product | | 3 | **keep** | past | I | the sheep | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **belong** | gerund | the sheep *not said here* | | | | | to the priests and peasants | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | the priests and peasants | peasants | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | past | I | | | | | for my playfellows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/90/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/36/)