Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 68

You will say that he will be our joy some day, and the Professor says so too."

Who acts: You, George, Professor · What happens: say, be · To what, where: joy · 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 (You, George, Professor), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 joy	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 joy	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 joy	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 joy	cop
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 joy	nmod:poss
9	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joy	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 says	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 says	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Professor	det
15	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 too	advmod
18	too	too	ADV	_	16 says	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	future	George	our joy	day	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	the Professor			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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