Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 158

Neither she nor her husband understood how to economize or save, and the riches brought no blessing with them, because they had not asked for it.

Who acts: Christina, riches · What happens: understand, economize, save, bring, not ask · To what, where: blessing

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 (Christina, riches), 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	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 understood	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understood	nsubj
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 husband	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 she	conj
6	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 economize	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 economize	mark
9	economize	economize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 understood	xcomp
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 save	cc
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 economize	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 riches	det
15	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brought	nsubj
16	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understood	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 blessing	det
18	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 blessing	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 asked	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 asked	advmod
26	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 brought	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	Christina		neither property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	economize	to-infinitive	Christina not said here			tree rules
3	save	infinitive	Christina not said here			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bring	past	the riches	no blessing	with blessing	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme
5	not ask speech: ask	past · perfect	riches = rich		for happiness	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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