Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 103

He let the house to Martin on most liberal terms, saying that he wished to go to sea again, because he loved it.

Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: let, say, wish, go, love · To what, where: house, Martin, most liberal terms, sea, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (Jurgen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Martin	case
6	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 terms	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 terms	amod
9	liberal	liberal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 terms	amod
10	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 let	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 let	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wished	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wished	nsubj
15	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saying	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wished	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 sea	case
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 loved	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 loved	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loved	nsubj
24	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wished	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loved	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	past	Jurgen	the house	Martin	most liberal terms		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme on term=Asset to martin=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Jurgen not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	past	Jurgen					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here			sea	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
5	love	past	Jurgen	mind				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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