Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 70
The higher the position in which one finds oneself transplanted, the greater is the suffering.
Who acts: one, oneself · What happens: find, transplant, be · To what, where: oneself, position, greater suffering
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 (one, oneself), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 higher | det |
| 2 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 position | det |
| 4 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 higher | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 finds | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finds | nsubj |
| 8 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 position | acl:relcl |
| 9 | oneself | oneself | PRON | Case=Acc Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 finds | obj |
| 10 | transplanted | transplant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 finds | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 greater | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 greater | det |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 suffering | amod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suffering | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 suffering | det |
| 16 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finds | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | one | oneself | the position | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent oneself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | transplant | participle | oneself not said here | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the greater suffering | 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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