Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 25

Her godmother's nephew was a fop: she intended to burn the book which he had given her, so that not the slightest thing should remain to remind her of him.

Who acts: nephew, violence, slightest thing · What happens: be, intend, burn, give, remain, remind · To what, where: fop, book, violence

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 (nephew, violence, slightest thing), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 godmother	nmod:poss
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nephew	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 godmother	case
4	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fop	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fop	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fop	det
7	fop	fop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 intended	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 intended	nsubj
10	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fop	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 burn	mark
12	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intended	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 book	det
14	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burn	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 given	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 book	acl:relcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 remain	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 remain	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 thing	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thing	det
25	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 remain	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 remain	aux
28	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 burn	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 remind	mark
30	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 remain	xcomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remind	iobj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remind	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	violence's godmother's nephew	a fop			tree rules
2	intend	past	violence	a fop not said here			tree rules
3	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	violence not said here	the book			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the book	violence		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
5	remain	should	the slightest thing				tree rules
6	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	the slightest thing not said here		violence	of Rudy	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of he=Topic

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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