Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 16
Tis a bitter crust, alas! at which I am condemned to gnaw!”
What happens: condemn, gnaw · To what, where: I, bitter crust
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: 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 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crust | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crust | det |
| 3 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crust | amod |
| 4 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 alas | punct |
| 6 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crust | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 crust | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 condemned | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 condemned | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 condemned | aux:pass |
| 12 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crust | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gnaw | mark |
| 14 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 condemned | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 crust | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | present · passive | I | a bitter crust and alas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gnaw | to-infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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