Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 21

I was thinking of sending my father for you, but I had a presentiment that you would be here this evening.

Who acts: I, presentiment · What happens: think, send, have, be · To what, where: father, presentiment

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (I, presentiment), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 sending	mark
5	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thinking	advcl
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sending	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sending	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 presentiment	det
15	presentiment	presentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 here	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 here	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 here	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 here	cop
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 presentiment	acl:relcl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	gerund	I not said here	my father		for you	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	have	past	I	a presentiment	evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presentiment=Patient
4	is	would	a presentiment			here property	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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