Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 25

The landlord told them that the king was a very good man, who never injured any one: but as to his daughter, "Heaven defend us!"

Who acts: landlord, king, good man, Heaven · What happens: tell, be, not injure, defend · To what, where: clothes, good man, one, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, king, good man, Heaven), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 man	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 injured	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 injured	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 injured	advmod
16	injured	injure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 injured	obj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 defend	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 defend	cc
21	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 daughter	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	21 as	fixed
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 defend	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 daughter	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Heaven	punct
27	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 defend	nsubj
28	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
29	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 defend	obj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 defend	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 defend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the landlord		clothes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	past	the king	a good man			tree rules
3	not injure	past	a good man	any one			tree rules
4	defend in a quote	infinitive	Heaven		us	as king's daughter	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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