Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 1

Poor John was very sad; for his father was so ill, he had no hope of his recovery.

Who acts: Poor John, father, John, recovery · What happens: be, have, hope, recover · To what, where: hope

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor John, father, John, recovery), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 John	amod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ill	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 ill	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ill	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ill	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 ill	advmod
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 hope	det
17	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 recovery	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 recovery	nmod:poss
20	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hope	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Poor John		sad property	tree rules
2	is	past	John's father		ill property	tree rules
3	have	past	John	no hope of John's recovery		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
4	hope		John's recovery			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
5	recover		John			nom recovery «event intransitive»: 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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