Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 127

She did not say that I was 'good for nothing;' very likely I was better then than I am now; but the misfortunes of this world, were unknown to me then.

Who acts: mistress, I, misfortunes · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mistress, I, misfortunes), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 good	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 good	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 good	cop
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 nothing	case
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 good	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 likely	advmod
15	likely	likely	ADV	_	18 better	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 better	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 say	parataxis
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 am	advmod
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 am	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 am	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	advcl
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 am	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 unknown	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 unknown	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 misfortunes	det
27	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 unknown	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 misfortunes	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 misfortunes	punct
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 unknown	cop
33	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 unknown	obl
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 unknown	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	mistress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I			for nothing; good property	tree rules
3	is	past	I			good, likely property	tree rules
4	is	past	the misfortunes of this world	me	then	unknown 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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