Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 259
I will allow him to wander about the world for a while, to atone for his sin, and to give him time to become better.
Who acts: I · What happens: allow, wander, atone, give, become · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 allow | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 allow | aux |
| 3 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 allow | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wander | mark |
| 6 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allow | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wander | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wander | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 atone | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 atone | mark |
| 15 | atone | atone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allow | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sin | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 atone | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 give | mark |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allow | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 become | mark |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 time | acl |
| 27 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 become | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | future | I | man | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wander not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | while | about the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | atone | to-infinitive | I not said here | for man's sin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | man | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | well property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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