Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 103

I've been like a mother to him, I know that, for I've a good heart."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, know, have · To what, where: bird, that, good heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. 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	6 mother	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 mother	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mother	parataxis
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 know	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 've	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 've	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 've	nsubj
16	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 heart	det
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 heart	amod
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 've	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I		bird	like a mother	tree rules
2	know	present	I	that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	have	present	I	a good heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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