Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 10

He asserted that the preceding night had been the worst that ever the malice of fate had allotted him; he would not for two silver marks again go through what he had endured while moon-stricken; but now, however, it was over.

Who acts: life, preceding night, malice · What happens: assert, precede, be, allot, not go, endure · To what, where: malice

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, preceding night, malice), 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 asserted	nsubj
2	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 allotted	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worst	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 worst	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 worst	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 worst	det
10	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 allotted	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 allotted	obj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 malice	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 malice	det
14	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 allotted	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fate	case
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 malice	nmod
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 allotted	aux
18	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asserted	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 allotted	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 would	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 would	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 asserted	ccomp
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 go	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 marks	case
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 marks	nummod
26	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 marks	amod
27	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 go	obl
28	again	again	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 would	advcl
30	through	through	ADP	_	31 what	case
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 go	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 endured	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 endured	aux
34	endured	endure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 what	acl:relcl
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 stricken	mark
36	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stricken	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 moon	punct
38	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 endured	advcl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 over	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 over	cc
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 over	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 now	punct
43	however	however	ADV	_	47 over	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 however	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 over	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 over	cop
47	over	over	ADV	_	2 asserted	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	assert	past	life				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	precede	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	the preceding night			bad property	tree rules
4	allot	past · perfect · passive		the malice of fate			tree rules
5	not go	present	life not said here		again	for two silver marks	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mark=Theme through what=Location
6	endure	past · perfect	life				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	malice		now	however, over property	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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