Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 40
There is a power, a nameless power, in the possession of favor from above, the favor of Providence, and this favor little George had.
Who acts: power, this, little George · What happens: be, favor, have, possess · To what, where: favor, Providence
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 (power, this, little 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 power | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 power | det |
| 7 | nameless | nameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 power | amod |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 power | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 possession | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 possession | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 possession | det |
| 12 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 favor | case |
| 14 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possession | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 above | case |
| 16 | above | above | ADV | _ | 14 favor | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 favor | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 favor | det |
| 19 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possession | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Providence | case |
| 21 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 favor | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 favor | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 favor | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 favor | nsubj |
| 25 | favor | favor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 George | amod |
| 27 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 favor | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a power and a nameless power | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | favor | present | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | little George | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | possess | favor | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | favor | Providence | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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