Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 39

"Thank goodness, here comes one of my own class, with whom I can talk," said the ball, examining the gilded top. "

Who acts: ball · What happens: thank, come, talk, say, examine, gild · To what, where: goodness, one, gilded top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 comes	advmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 comes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 class	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 class	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 class	amod
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whom	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 whom	case
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 said	ccomp
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	aux
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 whom	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whom	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 whom	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 comes	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ball	det
22	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 examining	punct
24	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 said	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 top	det
26	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 top	amod
27	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 examining	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present		goodness		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goodness=Theme
2	come in a quote	present		one of my own class	here	tree rules
3	talk in a quote	can	the ball = ball			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the ball			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	examine	gerund	the ball not said here	the gilded top		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme
6	gild	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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