Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 15

He thought of death, of suicide; I believe he pitied himself, for he wept bitterly, and when a man has had his cry out he doesn't kill himself.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: think, believe, pity, weep, have out, not kill · To what, where: man, cry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 death	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 suicide	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 suicide	case
7	suicide	suicide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 death	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 believe	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 believe	nsubj
10	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pitied	nsubj
12	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 believe	ccomp
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 pitied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wept	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 wept	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wept	nsubj
17	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pitied	conj
18	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	17 wept	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 had	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 believe	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cry	nmod:poss
27	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	25 had	compound:prt
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
31	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 kill	advmod
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	parataxis
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 kill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	man		of death and suicide	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	pity	past	man	man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
4	weep	past	man		bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have out	present · perfect	a man	man's cry		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Patient
6	not kill	present · do-support	man	man		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
7	cry		man			nom cry «communication 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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