Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 21
The tight shoe pained her, but her heart pained her still more.
Who acts: tight shoe, heart · What happens: pain · To what, where: light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tight shoe, heart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoe | det |
| 2 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoe | amod |
| 3 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pained | nsubj |
| 4 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pained | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pained | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 pained | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pained | nsubj |
| 10 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pained | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pained | obj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 pained | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | past | the tight shoe | light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pain | past | light's heart | light | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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