Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 108
I know a worthy man, an artisan, who wishes to marry you.
Who acts: I, artisan · What happens: know, wish, marry · To what, where: worthy man, you
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, artisan), 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 | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 artisan | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 artisan | det |
| 8 | artisan | artisan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wishes | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wishes | nsubj |
| 11 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 artisan | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wishes | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a worthy man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | a artisan | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | a artisan not said here | you | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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