Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 132
"The letter written by you to your father I have read, and see from it that you are prosperous in everything, and that still better fortune is in store for you.
Who acts: Ib, letter, you, better fortune · What happens: write, read, see, be · To what, where: letter, father, word, everything, store
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, letter, you, better fortune), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 letter | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 written | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 read | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 read | aux |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 father | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 prosperous | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 prosperous | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 prosperous | cop |
| 21 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 see | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 everything | case |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 prosperous | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 store | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 store | cc |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 fortune | det |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 better | advmod |
| 28 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 fortune | amod |
| 29 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 store | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 store | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 store | case |
| 32 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prosperous | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 store | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | participle | the letter not said here | your father | by you | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient | |||
| 2 | read in a quote | present · perfect | Ib | your father not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | the letter | word | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | everything | prosperous property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that better fortune | store | for you | 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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