Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 61
"Now you must work for us," said his foster-mother; and Rudy very soon became the entire support of the house.
Who acts: you, foster mother, Rudy · What happens: work, say, become, support · To what, where: entire support, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, foster mother, Rudy), 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 | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 work | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 work | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 work | aux |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 work | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 foster | punct |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Rudy | cc |
| 17 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 soon | advmod |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 became | advmod |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 support | det |
| 22 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 support | amod |
| 23 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 support | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | must | you | now | for us | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for we=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Rudy's foster mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Rudy | the entire support of the house | soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | support | the house | nom support «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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