Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 112

It is only right I should do her that justice now she is in her grave."

Who acts: It, I, mother · What happens: be, do · To what, where: mother, grave

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, mother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	ccomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 justice	mark
10	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	advcl
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 grave	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grave	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grave	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 grave	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 grave	nmod:poss
16	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				right property	tree rules
2	do	should	I	mother				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
3	is	present	mother		mother's grave	now		tree rules

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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