Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 101
The good God knows whom He will summon to Himself."
Who acts: good God, God · What happens: know, summon · To what, where: God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good God, God), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 God | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 God | amod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 summon | obj |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 summon | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 summon | aux |
| 8 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Himself | case |
| 10 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 summon | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the good God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | summon | future | God | God | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
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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