Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 149
In His own time He will take me to Himself, but I know He will never forsake my boy."
Who acts: God, I · What happens: take, know, not forsake · To what, where: me, God, boy · 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 (God, I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Himself | case |
| 10 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 know | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | parataxis |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 forsake | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 forsake | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 forsake | advmod |
| 18 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 boy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 forsake | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | God | me | God | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to himself=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not forsake | future | God | my boy | 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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