Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 71

He now endeavored as well as he was able to dispel his gloom, which was caused by outward chance circumstances merely, and on the bosom of nature imbibe the milk of purest human enjoyment.

Who acts: magazine, outward chance circumstances · What happens: endeavor, be, dispel, cause, imbibe, bosom · To what, where: gloom, milk, bosom, nature

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, outward chance circumstances), 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	3 endeavored	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 endeavored	advmod
3	endeavored	endeavor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	3 endeavored	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 able	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 able	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 endeavored	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dispel	mark
11	dispel	dispel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 gloom	nmod:poss
13	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dispel	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 caused	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 caused	aux:pass
17	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gloom	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 circumstances	case
19	outward	outward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 circumstances	amod
20	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 circumstances	compound
21	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	obl
22	merely	merely	ADV	_	21 circumstances	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 imbibe	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 imbibe	cc
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 bosom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bosom	det
27	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 imbibe	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 nature	case
29	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bosom	nmod
30	imbibe	imbibe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 endeavored	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 milk	det
32	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 imbibe	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 enjoyment	case
34	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 enjoyment	amod
35	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 enjoyment	amod
36	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 milk	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 endeavored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	endeavor	past	magazine			now		tree rules
2	is	past	magazine				able property	tree rules
3	dispel	to-infinitive	magazine not said here	magazine's gloom				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gloom=Patient
4	cause	past · passive	outward chance circumstances	magazine's gloom				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
5	imbibe	present	magazine not said here	the milk of purest human enjoyment	the bosom of nature			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
6	bosom			nature				nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient

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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