Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 12

We will not grudge him this little walk, it was just the thing to do him good after sitting so much.

Who acts: We, walk · What happens: not grudge, be, do, sit · To what, where: man, thing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, walk), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grudge	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grudge	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grudge	advmod
4	grudge	grudge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grudge	obj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 walk	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walk	amod
8	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grudge	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 thing	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thing	det
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grudge	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	obj
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 do	obj
19	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 sitting	mark
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 do	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 much	advmod
22	much	much	ADV	_	20 sitting	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grudge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not grudge	future	We	man	tree rules
2	is a	past	walk	the thing	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	We not said here	man	tree rules
4	sit	gerund	We not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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