Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 126
So far did George get, and much further; else it had not been worth while to tell the story of THE PORTER'S SON.
Who acts: George, it · What happens: get, not be, tell · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 further | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 further | cc |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 further | advmod |
| 9 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 get | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 worth | punct |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 worth | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 worth | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 worth | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 worth | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 worth | cop |
| 16 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | parataxis |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 worth | csubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 SON | case |
| 23 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 PORTER | det |
| 24 | PORTER | PORTER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 SON | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 'S | 's | PART | _ | 24 PORTER | case |
| 26 | SON | SON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 story | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | George | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | past · perfect | it | else, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the story of the PORTER's SON | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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