Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 135

A medicine was offered to him, which he was obliged to take: a bitter remedy, at which the sick body and the oppressed spirit alike shuddered.

Who acts: bitter remedy · What happens: offer, oblige, take, body, oppress, shudder · To what, where: medicine, tree, oppressed spirit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bitter remedy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 medicine	det
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 offered	aux:pass
4	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 offered	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obliged	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 obliged	nsubj:pass
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obliged	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obliged	aux:pass
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 offered	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obliged	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 remedy	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 remedy	det
16	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remedy	amod
17	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 offered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 body	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 body	nsubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 body	det
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 body	amod
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remedy	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 spirit	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 spirit	det
26	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 spirit	amod
27	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remedy	conj
28	alike	alike	ADV	_	29 shuddered	advmod
29	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 spirit	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	offer	past · passive		a medicine	tree	a bitter remedy and the sick body and the oppressed spirit obl	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal
2	oblige	past · passive					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	take	to-infinitive					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	body		a bitter remedy and the sick body and the oppressed spirit				tree rules
5	oppress	participle					tree rules
6	shudder	participle		the oppressed spirit not said here		alike property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=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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