Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 87

He knew very much about the matter--but he was so impatient that for sheer longing he got a pain in his back, and this with trees is the same thing as a headache with us.

Who acts: Tree, this · What happens: know, be, get · To what, where: pain, back, same thing

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 matter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 matter	det
7	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 impatient	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 impatient	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 impatient	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impatient	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 impatient	advmod
13	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 longing	case
16	sheer	sheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 longing	compound
17	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 impatient	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pain	det
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pain	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thing	cc
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 thing	nsubj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 trees	case
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 this	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thing	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thing	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 thing	amod
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	obl
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 headache	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 headache	det
36	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thing	nmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 us	case
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 headache	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Tree			about the matter	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about matter=Stimulus
2	is	past	Tree			impatient property	tree rules
3	get	past	Tree	a pain	Tree's back	for sheer longing	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pain=Theme for longing=Source
4	is a	present	this	the same thing		as a headache with us	tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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