Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 158

"There was something between my brother and her, I remember," said the mayor; "it is a good thing that she is out of the way, for now the boy will have the whole.

Who acts: something, mayor, death, woman, boy · What happens: be, remember, say, have · To what, where: good thing, way, whole · 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 (something, mayor, death, woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 was	nsubj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 brother	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brother	nmod:poss
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 something	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 her	cc
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brother	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 remember	nsubj
12	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 was	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mayor	det
17	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 thing	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thing	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 way	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 way	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 way	cop
28	out	out	ADP	_	31 way	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thing	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 have	mark
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 have	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boy	det
36	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	aux
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 whole	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 have	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be in a quote	past	something		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remember in a quote	present	the mayor = mayor				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the mayor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	death	a good thing			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	woman		the way		tree rules
6	have in a quote	future	the boy	the whole		now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=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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