Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 167

I say she was a good and worthy woman, and God, who is in heaven, knows I am speaking the truth, though the world may say, even now she was good for nothing."

Who acts: I, mother, God, world · What happens: say, be, know, speak · To what, where: good woman, heaven, truth · 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 (I, mother, God, world), 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	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 woman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worthy	cc
8	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knows	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knows	cc
12	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 knows	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heaven	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heaven	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heaven	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 heaven	case
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 God	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 God	punct
19	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	parataxis
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 speaking	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 speaking	aux
22	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 knows	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 truth	det
24	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 speaking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 say	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	30 say	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 say	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 say	aux
30	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 good	punct
32	even	even	ADV	_	36 good	advmod
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 good	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 good	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 good	cop
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 say	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 nothing	case
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 good	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	mother	a good woman				tree rules
3	is	present	God		heaven			tree rules
4	know	present	God					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	speak speech: other	present · progressive	I	the truth				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	may	the world					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	mother			now	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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