Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 62
"I cannot endure it," said the tin soldier, who stood on a shelf, "it is so lonely and dull here.
Who acts: tin soldier, book · What happens: not endure, say, stand, be · To what, where: book, shelf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tin soldier, book), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 endure | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 endure | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 endure | advmod |
| 5 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 endure | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 endure | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 11 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 soldier | compound |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soldier | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shelf | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shelf | det |
| 18 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lonely | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 lonely | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lonely | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 lonely | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 lonely | advmod |
| 24 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stood | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dull | cc |
| 26 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lonely | conj |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lonely | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not endure in a quote | can | the tin soldier = soldier | book | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the tin soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the tin soldier | a shelf | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | book | here | lonely property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be in a quote | book not said here | tree rules |
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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