Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 25

I have been very nearly carried away," she said; "it is a good thing that you are come, for I want something to strengthen me.

Who acts: woman, water, I · What happens: carry away, say, be, come, want, strengthen · To what, where: I, good thing, something, me · 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 (woman, water, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 carried	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 carried	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 carried	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thing	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 come	nsubj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux:pass
22	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 thing	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 want	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 want	case
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 come	conj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 want	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 strengthen	mark
29	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 something	acl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 strengthen	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry away	present · perfect · passive		I	away, nearly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	water	a good thing		tree rules
4	come	present · passive		a good thing		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	want	present	I	something		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
6	strengthen	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=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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