Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 55
For many heavy days and dark nights the heart must suffer to enable it to endure trial and temptation; yet, amidst it all, would the minstrel sing.
Who acts: heart, fugitive · What happens: suffer, enable, endure · To what, where: fugitive, trial
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, fugitive), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suffer | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 nights | cc |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nights | amod |
| 7 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 days | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffer | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 suffer | aux |
| 11 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 enable | mark |
| 13 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 suffer | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 enable | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 endure | mark |
| 16 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 enable | xcomp |
| 17 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endure | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 temptation | cc |
| 19 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trial | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 yet | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 suffer | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 it | punct |
| 23 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suffer | obl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 it | det |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sing | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 sing | aux |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sing | det |
| 29 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sing | compound |
| 30 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffer | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | must | the heart | yet; day | amidst fugitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | enable | to-infinitive | the heart not said here | fugitive | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | endure | to-infinitive | fugitive not said here | trial and temptation | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trial=Circumstance |
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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