Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 62

"It would be the best thing, now, to make an apprentice of him," said his father. "

Who acts: master, father · What happens: be, make, say · To what, where: best thing, apprentice · 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 (master, father), 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	_	7 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 make	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 apprentice	det
14	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 apprentice	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	would	master	the best thing		tree rules
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	master not said here	a apprentice of George	now	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset apprentice=Product
3	say speech: assert	past	George's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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