Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 86
"So little George is a confirmed Christian now.
What happens: confirm · To what, where: little 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: 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 | _ | 4 George | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 George | amod |
| 4 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 confirmed | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 confirmed | det |
| 7 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 confirmed | xcomp |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 confirmed | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm in a quote | present · passive | little George | now | christian property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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