Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 10

How I have cried over 'La Famille Roquebourg'--that the man must drink himself to death, so that she may marry the young fellow!

Who acts: I, man, Paris · What happens: cry over, drink, marry · To what, where: La, young fellow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, Paris), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 cried	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	aux
4	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 drink	advcl
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 cried	advmod
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 La	punct
7	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	appos
8	Famille	Famille	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 La	flat
9	Roquebourg	Roquebourg	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 La	flat
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 La	punct
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 drink	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 drink	aux
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 drink	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 death	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drink	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 marry	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 marry	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 marry	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 marry	aux
25	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 drink	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fellow	det
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fellow	amod
28	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 marry	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 drink	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry over speech: express	present · perfect	I		over property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	must	the man	La	to death	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	marry	may	Paris	the young fellow		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=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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