Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 82
I cannot bear it any longer," said the tin soldier; "I have wept tears of tin, it is so melancholy here.
Who acts: I, old chairs, gout · What happens: not bear, say, weep, be · To what, where: gout, tin soldier, melancholy · 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 (I, old chairs, gout), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 bear | advmod |
| 4 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | obj |
| 6 | any | any | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 bear | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bear | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldier | det |
| 12 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soldier | compound |
| 13 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 tears | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wept | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wept | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wept | aux |
| 18 | wept | weep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tears | amod |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bear | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tin | case |
| 21 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tears | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 melancholy | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 melancholy | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 melancholy | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 melancholy | advmod |
| 26 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bear | parataxis |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 melancholy | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | can | I | gout | wept tears of tin obl; long property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old chairs = chair not said here | the tin soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | ||||
| 3 | weep | present · perfect | I | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | gout | melancholy | 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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