Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 61
Then at last would the agonizing restlessness be allayed, which destroys my existence!
Who acts: my · What happens: allay, destroy, exist · To what, where: agonizing restlessness, last, existence
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 allayed | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 allayed | obl |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 allayed | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 restlessness | det |
| 6 | agonizing | agonizing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 restlessness | amod |
| 7 | restlessness | restlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allayed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allayed | aux:pass |
| 9 | allayed | allay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 destroys | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 destroys | nsubj |
| 12 | destroys | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 allayed | conj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 existence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destroys | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 allayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allay | would · passive | the agonizing restlessness | last | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | destroy | present | my existence | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Patient | |||||
| 3 | exist | my | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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