Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 21

“Yes; but it is a chain, friend, which ensures you the blessed bread of existence,” answered the poet.

Who acts: desk, friend, poet · What happens: be, ensure, answer · To what, where: chain, blessed bread, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desk, friend, poet), 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	_	8 chain	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 chain	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 chain	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chain	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 chain	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chain	det
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answered	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chain	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ensures	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 ensures	nsubj
13	ensures	ensure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 ensures	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bread	det
16	blessed	blessed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bread	amod
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ensures	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 existence	case
19	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bread	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chain	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 chain	punct
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poet	det
24	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	desk	a chain		tree rules
2	ensure in a quote	present	friend	the blessed bread of existence	you	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition you=Beneficiary bread=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the poet			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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