Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 98

He was the son of the house, and I was only a maid; but he loved me truly and honorably, and he told his mother of it.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: be, love, tell · To what, where: son, maid, me, mother · 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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 son	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 son	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 maid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 maid	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 maid	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 maid	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 maid	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 maid	det
14	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 loved	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 loved	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	nsubj
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 son	parataxis
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 loved	obj
20	truly	truly	ADV	_	18 loved	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 honorably	cc
22	honorably	honorably	ADV	_	20 truly	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 loved	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	the son and a maid		of the house	tree rules
2	is a	past	I	a maid			tree rules
3	love	past	man	me		truly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	man		man's mother of maid		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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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