Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 20
I will thank the good God; and I will thank Him, too, for letting little Emily get well."
Who acts: I, little Emily · What happens: thank, let, get · To what, where: good God, God
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 (I, little Emily), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 thank | aux |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 God | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 God | amod |
| 6 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thank | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thank | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thank | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 thank | aux |
| 11 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thank | parataxis |
| 12 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thank | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 thank | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 letting | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 letting | mark |
| 17 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thank | advcl |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Emily | amod |
| 19 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 letting | xcomp |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | future | I | the good God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | future | I | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | little Emily | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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