Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 159

It is evidently for the sake of contrast that I and this wretched soul should arrive here exactly at the same time," said the critic. "

Who acts: admission, sake · What happens: be, arrive, say · To what, where: critic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (admission, sake), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sake	cop
3	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	6 sake	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 sake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sake	det
6	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 contrast	case
8	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sake	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 arrive	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 arrive	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 soul	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 soul	det
13	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 soul	amod
14	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 I	conj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 arrive	aux
16	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sake	acl:relcl
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 arrive	advmod
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	22 time	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arrive	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sake	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sake	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 critic	det
27	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	admission				for the sake; of contrast; evidently property	tree rules
2	arrive	should	the sake		here	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the critic				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent critic=Topic

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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