Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 66

The little bit of eating that he wants can be managed for him, for he's quite happy with a few boiled potatoes; and he gets taught for nothing.

Who acts: little bit, George · What happens: eat, want, manage, be, boil, teach · To what, where: little bit, George

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 (little bit, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 managed	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 bit	acl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wants	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	advcl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 managed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	aux:pass
11	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 managed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happy	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 happy	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 happy	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happy	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 happy	advmod
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 managed	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 potatoes	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 potatoes	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 potatoes	amod
23	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 potatoes	amod
24	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 happy	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 taught	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taught	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taught	nsubj:pass
28	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 taught	aux:pass
29	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 managed	conj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 taught	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	the little bit not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	George			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	manage	can · passive		the little bit	for George	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	George		with a few boiled potatoes; happy property	tree rules
5	boil	participle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	teach speech: other	present · passive		George	for nothing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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