Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 61
"George will be confirmed at Easter," said the porter's wife; for George had got so far as this.
Who acts: wife, George · What happens: confirm, say, get · To what, where: George, Easter · 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 (wife, George), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 confirmed | punct |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 confirmed | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 confirmed | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Easter | case |
| 7 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 confirmed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 confirmed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 confirmed | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 porter | case |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 George | case |
| 17 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | aux |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 got | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 got | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm in a quote | future · passive | George | Easter | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the porter's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | George | as this; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as this=Attribute |
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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