Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 37

He has neither an infirm mother, nor a whole troop of everlastingly hungry children to torment him.

Who acts: lieutenant · What happens: have, torment · To what, where: infirm mother, lieutenant

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lieutenant), 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mother	cc:preconj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mother	det
5	infirm	infirm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 troop	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 troop	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 troop	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 troop	amod
11	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 children	case
13	everlastingly	everlastingly	ADV	_	14 hungry	advmod
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 troop	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 torment	mark
17	torment	torment	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 troop	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 torment	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	lieutenant	a infirm mother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
2	torment	to-infinitive	lieutenant not said here	lieutenant					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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