Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 1
The next morning he had a sore chest and a bleeding back; and, excepting the fright, that was all that he had gained by the Shoes of Fortune.
Who acts: he · What happens: have, bleed, except, gain · To what, where: sore chest, fright
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg1597:469): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chest | det |
| 7 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chest | amod |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 back | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 back | det |
| 11 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 back | amod |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chest | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 all | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 excepting | punct |
| 16 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 all | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fright | det |
| 18 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excepting | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 excepting | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 all | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | cop |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 had | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gained | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gained | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gained | aux |
| 26 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Shoes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Shoes | det |
| 29 | Shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 gained | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Fortune | case |
| 31 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Shoes | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | he | a sore chest and a bleeding back | morning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Patient | |||
| 2 | bleed | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | except | gerund | he not said here | the fright | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gain | past · perfect | he | by the Shoes of Fortune | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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