Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 21

But how comes it that one relation is always harder towards another than even strangers would be?

Who acts: one relation · What happens: come, be · To what, where: inheritance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one relation), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 comes	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comes	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 harder	mark
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 relation	nummod
7	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 harder	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 harder	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 harder	advmod
10	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 comes	conj
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 harder	obl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 strangers	case
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 strangers	advmod
15	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 be	obl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 be	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 harder	cop
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		inheritance					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	one relation					towards another; always, hard property	tree rules

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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