Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 21

"I will always be good," said John, "and then I shall go to be with my father in heaven.

Who acts: John · What happens: be, say, go · To what, where: heaven · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (John), 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	_	6 good	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 good	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 good	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 John	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 John	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 go	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	22 father	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 father	cop
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 father	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 heaven	case
24	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 father	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	John			always, good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	shall	John		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	John not said here	heaven		with my father	tree rules

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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