Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 191

He thought of all those who had once suffered from starvation, of Saint Elizabeth, who once wandered on the earth, the saint of his home and his childhood, the noble Duchess of Thuringia, that highly esteemed lady who visited the poorest villages, bringing hope and relief to the sick inmates.

Who acts: weather, Elizabeth, esteemed lady · What happens: think, suffer, wander, esteem, visit, bring · To what, where: starvation, earth, poorest villages, hope, sick inmates

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 (weather, Elizabeth, esteemed lady), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 those	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 those	det:predet
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 Elizabeth	det
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 suffered	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 suffered	aux
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 suffered	advmod
9	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 those	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 starvation	case
11	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 those	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Saint	case
14	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Elizabeth	nmod:desc
15	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wandered	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wandered	nsubj
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 wandered	advmod
19	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Elizabeth	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wandered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saint	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 saint	det
25	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Elizabeth	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 home	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 home	nmod:poss
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saint	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 childhood	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 childhood	nmod:poss
31	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 home	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Duchess	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Duchess	det
34	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Duchess	amod
35	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Elizabeth	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Thuringia	case
37	Thuringia	Thuringia	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Duchess	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lady	punct
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 lady	det
40	highly	highly	ADV	_	41 esteemed	advmod
41	esteemed	esteem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 lady	amod
42	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Elizabeth	appos
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 visited	nsubj
44	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 lady	acl:relcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 villages	det
46	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 villages	amod
47	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 visited	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 bringing	punct
49	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
50	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bringing	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 relief	cc
52	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hope	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	56 inmates	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 inmates	det
55	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 inmates	amod
56	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 bringing	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	weather				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	suffer	past · perfect			starvation	once property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	wander	past	that Elizabeth of Saint and the noble Duchess of Thuringia		the earth	once property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Trajectory
4	esteem	participle				highly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	visit	past	that esteemed lady	the poorest villages			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Co-Agent
6	bring	gerund	weather not said here	hope and relief	the sick inmates		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hope=Theme to inmate=Destination

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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