Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 81

"Into the wide world," he replied; "I am only a poor lad, I have neither father nor mother, but God will help me."

Who acts: John, God · What happens: reply, be, have, help · To what, where: wide world, poor lad, father, John · 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, 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	_	9 replied	punct
2	Into	into	ADP	_	5 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 world	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lad	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 lad	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lad	cop
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 lad	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lad	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lad	amod
17	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lad	parataxis
21	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 father	cc:preconj
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 mother	cc
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 father	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 help	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 help	cc
27	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 help	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 help	aux
29	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 help	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lad	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	John			the wide world	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	John	a poor lad			tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	John	father nor mother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
4	help in a quote	future	God		John		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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