Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 13

Could he confess to Babette, indeed, every thought which in the hour of temptation might have led him to wrong doing?

Who acts: Rudy, thought · What happens: confess, lead, do · To what, where: thought, Babette, Rudy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, thought), 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 confess	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confess	nsubj
3	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Babette	case
5	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 confess	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 confess	punct
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 confess	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 thought	det
10	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 confess	obl
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 led	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hour	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 led	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 temptation	case
16	temptation	temptation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hour	nmod
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 led	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 led	aux
19	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thought	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	obj
21	to	to	SCONJ	_	23 doing	mark
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 doing	amod
23	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 led	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	confess	could	Rudy	every thought	Babette		indeed property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to babette=Recipient
2	lead	might · perfect	every thought	Rudy		hour		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	do	gerund	every thought not said here					vn act-114-1 «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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