Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 42

She wrote that Emily had come down to see her, and had been to her like an angel of comfort; and concerning herself, she added that she had been allowed to keep her situation as porteress.

Who acts: mother, Emily · What happens: write, come down, see, be, concern, add · To what, where: mother, situation

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 (mother, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
4	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wrote	ccomp
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 her	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 her	cc
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 her	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 her	cop
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obl
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 angel	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 angel	det
19	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 her	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 comfort	case
21	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 angel	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 added	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 added	cc
24	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 added	advcl
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 concerning	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concerning	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 added	nsubj
28	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 allowed	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 allowed	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 allowed	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 allowed	aux:pass
33	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 added	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 allowed	xcomp
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 situation	nmod:poss
37	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 porteress	case
39	porteress	porteress	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come down	past · perfect	Emily		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	Emily not said here	mother		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	is	past · perfect			to lady; like a angel of comfort	tree rules
5	concern	gerund	mother not said here	mother		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
6	add speech: assert	past	mother			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	allow	past · perfect · passive		mother		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
8	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	mother's situation	as porteress	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=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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