Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 29

It had not, indeed, been promised us, but we might very well imagine it.

Who acts: theatre, we · What happens: not have, promise, imagine · To what, where: us, theatre

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (theatre, we), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promised	punct
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 promised	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 promised	punct
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 promised	aux:pass
8	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 promised	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 imagine	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 imagine	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 imagine	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 imagine	aux
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 imagine	advmod
16	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 imagine	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not have	past	theatre				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise	participle · passive	theatre not said here		us	indeed property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: we=Theme
3	imagine	might	we	theatre		well property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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