Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 56

John was not at all timid; he had a good conscience, and he knew also that the dead can never injure any one.

Who acts: John, dead · What happens: not be, have, know, not injure · To what, where: all, good conscience, one

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, dead), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 timid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 timid	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 timid	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 timid	obl
6	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 timid	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 conscience	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 conscience	amod
12	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 timid	conj
17	also	also	ADV	_	16 knew	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 injure	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dead	det
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 injure	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 injure	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 injure	advmod
23	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	advcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 injure	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 timid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	John		all	timid property	tree rules
2	have	past	John	a good conscience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient
3	know	past	John				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not injure	can	the dead	any one			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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