Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 3
"You have been a good son, John," said the sick father, "and God will help you on in the world."
Who acts: You, good son, God · What happens: be, say, help on · To what, where: good son, sick father, you, world · 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 (You, good son, God), 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 | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 son | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 son | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 son | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 John | punct |
| 9 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 14 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 father | amod |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 help | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 help | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | You | a good son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a good son | the sick father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 3 | help on in a quote | future | God | you | the world | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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