Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 57

A visit to the mill, to say good evening to the miller, and good evening to little Babette, can do no harm.

Who acts: visit · What happens: say, do · To what, where: harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visit), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 visit	det
2	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visit	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 evening	amod
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 miller	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 miller	det
13	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evening	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 evening	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 evening	cc
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 evening	amod
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl:unmarked
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Babette	case
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Babette	amod
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 evening	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 harm	det
25	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	a visit to the mill				evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	can	a visit to the mill not said here	no harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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