Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 193
He thought of her as she went about speaking words of comfort, binding up the wounds of the afflicted and feeding the hungry, although often blamed for it by her stern husband.
Who acts: weather, Lady · What happens: think, go, speak, bind up, afflict, feed · To what, where: wounds, hungry, comfort · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 comfort | case |
| 12 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 binding | punct |
| 14 | binding | bind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 binding | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wounds | det |
| 17 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 binding | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 afflicted | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 afflicted | det |
| 20 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wounds | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feeding | cc |
| 22 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 afflicted | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hungry | det |
| 24 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feeding | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blamed | punct |
| 26 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 blamed | mark |
| 27 | often | often | ADV | _ | 28 blamed | advmod |
| 28 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 afflicted | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 blamed | obl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 husband | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 33 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 husband | amod |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blamed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | weather | of Lady | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Lady | about speaking words of comfort | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about word=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bind up | gerund | Lady not said here | the wounds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 5 | afflict | participle | the wounds not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | feed | gerund | the hungry | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hungry=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | blame | participle | for soul; by Lady's stern husband; often property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for it=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | word | comfort | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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