Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 12

So he put the geography book under his pillow, for he had heard that this was a great help towards learning a lesson, but not always to be depended upon.

Who acts: Tuk, this, great help · What happens: put, hear, be, learn, not depend · To what, where: geography book, pillow, great help, lesson

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, this, great help), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 pillow	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pillow	nmod:poss
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 heard	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 put	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 help	mark
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 help	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 help	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 help	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 help	amod
20	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	conj
21	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	22 learning	mark
22	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 help	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lesson	det
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 learning	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 depended	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 depended	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 depended	advmod
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 depended	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	31 depended	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 depended	aux:pass
31	depended	depend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 put	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 depended	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Tuk	the geography book	Tuk's pillow		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme under pillow=Destination
2	hear	past · perfect	Tuk				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	this	a great help			tree rules
4	learn	gerund	a great help not said here	a lesson			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
5	not depend	to-infinitive · passive	Tuk not said here			always property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»

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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