Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 89
She is to assist the landlady in the housekeeping; and, if afterwards she behaves well and remains to be confirmed, the people will treat her as their own daughter."
Who acts: Christina, people · What happens: be, behave, remain, confirm, treat · To what, where: Christina
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, people), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 assist | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 assist | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 assist | mark |
| 4 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 landlady | det |
| 6 | landlady | landlady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assist | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 housekeeping | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 housekeeping | det |
| 9 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 landlady | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 behaves | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 behaves | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 afterwards | mark |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 16 behaves | advcl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 behaves | nsubj |
| 16 | behaves | behave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 assist | parataxis |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 behaves | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remains | cc |
| 19 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 behaves | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 confirmed | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 22 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 remains | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 treat | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 treat | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 treat | aux |
| 27 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 remains | parataxis |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 treat | obj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 daughter | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 daughter | amod |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 treat | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assist | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 assist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Christina | assist property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | behave | present | Christina | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | Christina not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | confirm | to-infinitive · passive | Christina not said here | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP» | |||||
| 5 | treat | future | the people | Christina | as people's own daughter | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme as daughter=Attribute |
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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