Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 90

"Many thanks for the kind consideration you showed my old mother," he said. "

Who acts: Many thanks, George · What happens: show, say · To what, where: old mother · 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 (Many thanks, George), 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	_	9 showed	punct
2	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thanks	amod
3	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 showed	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 consideration	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consideration	det
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 consideration	amod
7	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showed	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 showed	nsubj
9	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mother	amod
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showed	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 showed	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	past	Many thanks		my old mother			for the kind consideration	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	George						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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