Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 3
The Lord has been good to you in giving you abilities, and He has also been good in placing you among kind people.
Who acts: Lord, Professor · What happens: be, give, place · To what, where: you, 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 (Lord, Professor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lord | det |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 good | obl |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 giving | mark |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 good | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | abilities | ability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 giving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 good | cc |
| 14 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 good | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 good | aux |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 good | cop |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 placing | mark |
| 20 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 good | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 placing | obj |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 people | amod |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 placing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | the Lord | you | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | the Lord not said here | abilities | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ability=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | Professor | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | place | gerund | Professor not said here | you | among kind people | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme among people=Destination |
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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