Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 68
The boy can stay here and take care of the linen, and I'll come back and finish the washing; it is but a trifle."
Who acts: boy, I, care · What happens: stay, take, come back, finish, be · To what, where: care, washing, trifle
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 (boy, I, care), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stay | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 take | cc |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | conj |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 linen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 linen | det |
| 11 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 come | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stay | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 finish | cc |
| 19 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 washing | det |
| 21 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finish | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 trifle | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 trifle | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 trifle | cop |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 trifle | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 trifle | det |
| 27 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | can | the boy | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the boy not said here | care | of the linen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of linen=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come back | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | finish | infinitive | I not said here | the washing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality washing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | care | a trifle | 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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