Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 66

He was in the middle of Switzerland, but packed up with eight other passengers in the inside of an eternally-creaking diligence; his head ached till it almost split, his weary neck could hardly bear the heavy load, and his feet, pinched by his torturing boots, were terribly swollen.

Who acts: magazine, head, weary neck · What happens: be, pack up, creak, ache, split, bear · To what, where: middle, heavy load, feet

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 (magazine, head, weary neck), 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	5 middle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Switzerland	case
7	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 packed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 packed	cc
10	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 middle	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 packed	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 passengers	case
13	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 passengers	nummod
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 passengers	amod
15	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 packed	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 inside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 inside	det
18	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passengers	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 diligence	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 diligence	det
21	eternally	eternally	ADV	_	23 creaking	advmod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 eternally	punct
23	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 diligence	amod
24	diligence	diligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inside	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 ached	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ached	nsubj
28	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 packed	conj
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 split	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 split	nsubj
31	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 split	advmod
32	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ached	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bear	punct
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 neck	nmod:poss
35	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 neck	amod
36	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bear	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 bear	aux
38	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	39 bear	advmod
39	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 split	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 load	det
41	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 load	amod
42	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bear	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 feet	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 feet	cc
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 feet	nmod:poss
46	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 swollen	nsubj:pass
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 pinched	punct
48	pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 feet	acl
49	by	by	ADP	_	52 boots	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 boots	nmod:poss
51	torturing	torture	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 boots	amod
52	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 pinched	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 feet	punct
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 swollen	aux:pass
55	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	56 swollen	advmod
56	swollen	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 ached	ccomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	magazine		the middle	of Switzerland	tree rules
2	pack up	participle				with eight other passengers in the inside of a creaking diligence	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
3	creak	gerund				eternally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ache	past	magazine's head				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	split	past	head			almost property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	bear	could	magazine's weary neck	the heavy load		hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
7	pinch	participle		magazine's feet not said here		by magazine's torturing boots	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by boot=Theme
8	torture	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	swell	past · passive		magazine's feet		terribly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent

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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