Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 35

As a provision for the journey, he takes this or that good deed we have done, and lets it accompany us; and this may be very pleasant or very terrific.

Who acts: death, book, this · What happens: take, do, let, accompany, be · To what, where: this, good deed, book, us

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, book, this), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 provision	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 provision	det
3	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 journey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 journey	det
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 provision	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 provision	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 takes	nsubj
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 takes	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 done	cc
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 done	mark
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deed	amod
14	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	nsubj:pass
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 done	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 this	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lets	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lets	cc
20	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 takes	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lets	obj
22	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lets	xcomp
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 accompany	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pleasant	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pleasant	cc
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 pleasant	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 pleasant	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 pleasant	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 pleasant	advmod
30	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 takes	conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 terrific	cc
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 terrific	advmod
33	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pleasant	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present	death	this	as a provision for the journey	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme as provision=Attribute
2	do	present · perfect · passive		good deed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	let	present	death not said here	book		tree rules
4	accompany	infinitive	book not said here	us		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	is	may	this		pleasant property	tree rules
6	be		this not said here			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: «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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