Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 21

But John folded his hands, and thanked God, who, he felt quite sure, would help him again; and he knew he had to guess twice more.

Who acts: John, God · What happens: fold, thank, feel, help, know, have · To what, where: hands, God, John, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 folded	cc
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 folded	nsubj
3	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 folded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thanked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thanked	cc
8	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 folded	conj
9	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thanked	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 felt	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 God	acl:relcl
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 sure	advmod
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 felt	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 felt	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 help	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 folded	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knew	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 guess	mark
29	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 guess	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fold	past	John	John's hands				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	thank speech: thank	past	John not said here		God			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme
3	feel	past	God				sure property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	help	would	God not said here		John	again		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	know	past	John					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	John					tree rules
7	guess	to-infinitive	John not said here	more				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

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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