Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 23

"It would have been better, after all, if he had been apprenticed to a handicraftsman," said the porter's wife, weeping; "for then we could have kept him with us.

Who acts: medal, wife · What happens: be, apprentice, say, weep, keep · To what, where: Emily, we · 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 (medal, wife), 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	_	6 better	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 better	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 better	cop
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 better	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apprenticed	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 apprenticed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 apprenticed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 apprenticed	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 apprenticed	aux:pass
15	apprenticed	apprentice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 better	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 handicraftsman	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 handicraftsman	det
18	handicraftsman	handicraftsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 apprenticed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apprenticed	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 porter	det
23	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wife	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 porter	case
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weeping	punct
27	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 kept	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 kept	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 then	case
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 kept	obl
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 kept	nsubj:pass
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 kept	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 kept	aux
35	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 said	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kept	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 kept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would · perfect	medal		after all	good property	tree rules
2	apprentice a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		Emily		to a handicraftsman	vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the porter's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	weep	gerund	the porter's wife not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	keep in a quote	could · perfect · passive		we		with us	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute

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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