Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 141

These things often harden the character, but sometimes soften the heart, even too much.

Who acts: things · What happens: harden, soften · To what, where: character, heart

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 (things), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 things	det
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harden	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 harden	advmod
4	harden	harden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 character	det
6	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 harden	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soften	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 soften	cc
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 soften	advmod
10	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harden	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heart	det
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soften	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soften	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 harden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harden	present	this things	the character				often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent character=Patient
2	soften	infinitive	this things not said here	the heart				sometimes property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

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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