Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 61

They told him he was fortunate in being proved innocent, and that he might go.

Who acts: creatures, compensation · What happens: tell, be, prove, go · To what, where: compensation · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, compensation), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fortunate	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fortunate	cop
6	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 proved	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 proved	aux:pass
9	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fortunate	advcl
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proved	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 go	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	creatures = creature	compensation		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	past	compensation		fortunate property	tree rules
3	prove	gerund · passive	compensation not said here		innocent property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
4	go	might	compensation			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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