Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 216
I shall be obliged to repeat the same thing for a hundred years; and each time, when the trial is past, if you resist, you will gain strength, till resistance becomes easy, and at last the temptation will be quite overcome.
Who acts: trial, you, resistance, last temptation · What happens: oblige, repeat, be, resist, gain, become · To what, where: I, same thing, strength
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial, you, resistance, last temptation), 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 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 repeat | mark |
| 6 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeat | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repeat | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 time | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obliged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 past | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 past | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trial | det |
| 21 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 past | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 past | cop |
| 23 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 gain | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 resist | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 resist | nsubj |
| 27 | resist | resist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 gain | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resist | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 gain | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 gain | aux |
| 31 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 past | parataxis |
| 32 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gain | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 becomes | punct |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 becomes | mark |
| 35 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 becomes | nsubj |
| 36 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 gain | conj |
| 37 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 becomes | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 overcome | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 overcome | cc |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 last | case |
| 41 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 temptation | amod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 temptation | det |
| 43 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 overcome | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 overcome | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 overcome | cop |
| 46 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 47 overcome | advmod |
| 47 | overcome | overcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 becomes | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | shall · passive | I | time | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | repeat | to-infinitive | the same thing | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the trial | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resist a condition, not said to happen | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | gain | future | you | strength | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 6 | become | present | resistance | easy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | future | the last temptation | overcome property | 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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