Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 58

Now if the words on the note had been "many thanks for yesterday's reception," we might easily have guessed from whom it came.

Who acts: we, words, note, yesterday · What happens: guess, be, come, receive

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 (we, words, note, yesterday), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 came	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 whom	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 whom	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 note	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 note	det
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 whom	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 whom	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 thanks	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thanks	amod
12	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 whom	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 reception	case
14	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reception	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 yesterday	case
16	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thanks	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 guessed	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 guessed	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 guessed	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 guessed	aux
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	23 guessed	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 guessed	aux
23	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 whom	advcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	obl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	guess	might · perfect	we		easily property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the words on the note			tree rules
3	come	past	note	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	receive in a quote		yesterday			nom reception «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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