Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 46

It is pleasing to be convinced that you have settled a matter by your reply; it is something to make you sleep well, and they both slept well upon it.

Who acts: answer, you, violin, your · What happens: please, be, settle, make, sleep, reply · To what, where: matter, something, you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, you, violin, your), 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	3 pleasing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pleasing	aux
3	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 convinced	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 convinced	cop
6	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pleasing	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 settled	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 settled	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 settled	aux
10	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 convinced	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 matter	det
12	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 settled	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 reply	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 reply	nmod:poss
15	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 settled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 something	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 something	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 something	cop
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 pleasing	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 something	acl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sleep	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slept	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slept	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slept	nsubj
28	both	both	ADV	_	29 slept	advmod
29	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 something	conj
30	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 slept	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 slept	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleasing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	please	present · progressive	answer			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	answer not said here		convinced property	tree rules
3	settle	present · perfect	you	a matter	by your reply	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location
4	is a	present	answer	something		tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	answer not said here	you		tree rules
6	sleep	infinitive	you not said here		well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	past	violin		upon answer; both, well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	reply		your			nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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.

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