Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 105
For a long time his ears endured it, but at last all the noise and tumult became too much for one man to bear.
Who acts: ears, last · What happens: endure, become, bear · To what, where: world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ears, last), 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 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endured | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 endured | nsubj |
| 7 | endured | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 endured | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 noise | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 last | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tumult | cc |
| 17 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noise | conj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 endured | conj |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 man | nummod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 much | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bear | mark |
| 25 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 much | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 endured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | past | Seer's ears | world | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance | |||
| 2 | become | past | last and all noise and tumult | much property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | last and all noise and tumult not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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