Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 138

Sorrow and suffering deprived Anthony's father of his strength, so that he had something else to think of besides nursing his love-sorrows and his anger against Molly.

Who acts: Sorrow, father, besides · What happens: deprive, have, think, nurse, sorrow, anger · To what, where: father, something, love sorrows

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 (Sorrow, father, besides), 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	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deprived	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 suffering	cc
3	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sorrow	conj
4	deprived	deprive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Anthony	case
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deprived	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 strength	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 strength	nmod:poss
10	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 had	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 so	fixed
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deprived	conj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 had	obj
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 something	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 think	mark
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 something	acl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 besides	case
21	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 think	obl
22	nursing	nurse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 besides	acl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sorrows	nmod:poss
24	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorrows	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 love	punct
26	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 nursing	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 anger	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 anger	nmod:poss
29	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorrows	conj
30	against	against	ADP	_	31 Molly	case
31	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 anger	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 deprived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deprive	past	Sorrow and suffering	Anthony's father of father's strength		vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Source
2	have	past	father	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	father not said here	something not said here	of besides	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	nurse	gerund	besides not said here	father's love sorrows and father's anger against Molly		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Beneficiary
5	sorrow		father			nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
6	anger		father		against Molly	nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent against=obl

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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