Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 142
"He has escaped me," he replied; "but a better time will come."
Who acts: George, better time · What happens: escape, reply, come · To what, where: George · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (George, better time), 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 escaped | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | aux |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 escaped | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape in a quote | present · perfect | George | George | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | George | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | a better time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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