Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 30

I will always be a good sister to you, one in whom you can trust; but I can never be anything more."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, trust, not be · To what, where: good sister, you, anything

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, you), 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	7 sister	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sister	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 sister	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sister	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sister	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sister	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 one	nmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 trust	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 trust	aux
16	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 whom	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 anything	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 anything	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 anything	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 anything	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 anything	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 anything	cop
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 sister	parataxis
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 anything	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	future	I	a good sister	you	always property	tree rules
2	trust	can	you				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	can	I	anything			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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