Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 69
I always thought the boy would be able to help me with a few dollars.
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: think, be, help · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 dollars | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dollars | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dollars | amod |
| 15 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 help | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | always property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | would | the boy | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | me | with a few dollars | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary with dollar=Theme |
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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