Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 97

And she let me read all your letters, so that I almost believe I know you.

Who acts: mother, me, I, your · What happens: let, read, believe, know, letter · To what, where: me, letters, you · 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 (mother, me, I, your), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 letters	det:predet
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 letters	nmod:poss
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 read	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 believe	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 believe	nsubj
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	14 believe	advmod
14	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 believe	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	past	mother	me		tree rules
2	read	infinitive	me not said here	your letters		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
3	believe	present	I		almost property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	present	I	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	letter		your			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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