Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 161

The mayor sent for the boy to come to him, and promised to take care of him, but most cruelly added that it was a good thing that his mother was dead, for "she was good for nothing."

Who acts: mayor, most, care, good thing, mother · What happens: send, come, promise, take, add, be · To what, where: mayor, care, good thing · 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 (mayor, most, care, good thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mayor	det
2	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 promised	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promised	xcomp
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 added	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 added	cc
21	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 added	nsubj
22	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	23 added	advmod
23	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 thing	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thing	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 added	ccomp
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 dead	nsubj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dead	cop
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 good	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	40 good	mark
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 good	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 good	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 good	cop
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 added	parataxis
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 nothing	case
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 good	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	the mayor			for the boy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	to-infinitive	the mayor not said here		mayor		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	promise speech: promise	past	the mayor not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mayor not said here	care		of mayor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
5	add speech: assert	past	most			cruelly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a	past	care	a good thing			tree rules
7	is	past	a good thing			dead property	tree rules
8	is in a quote	past	mother			for nothing; good 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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