Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 159

I will place him with honest people to bring him up, that he may become a respectable working man."

Who acts: mayor · What happens: bring up, become, work · To what, where: mayor, respectable working man

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 (mayor), 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	3 place	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 place	aux
3	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 place	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 place	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 people	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 bring	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 become	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 become	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 become	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bring	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
18	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 become	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 place	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bring up	to-infinitive		mayor	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	become	may	mayor	a respectable working man	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	work	gerund			vn employment-95.3 «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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