Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 15

Wasn't it a good thing that we didn't bind George apprentice to a handicraftsman? for he has abilities of his own."

Who acts: reception, we, Count · What happens: not be, not bind, have · To what, where: good thing, abilities

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 (reception, we, Count), 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 thing	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 bind	obj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bind	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bind	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bind	advmod
11	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl:relcl
12	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 apprentice	compound
13	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bind	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 handicraftsman	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 handicraftsman	det
16	handicraftsman	handicraftsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bind	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 bind	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 has	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bind	advcl
21	abilities	ability	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 has	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 abilities	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	reception	a good thing		tree rules
2	not bind	past · do-support	we	a good thing	to a handicraftsman	tree rules
3	have	present	Count	abilities of Count's own		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ability=Patient

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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