Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 45

The diary kept growing through a long time, and amid many severe headaches, and through a long course of half-nights, that is to say, of court balls.

Who acts: diary, amid, that · What happens: keep, grow, headache, be · To what, where: long course

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diary, amid, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 diary	det
2	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 headaches	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 headaches	cc
11	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 headaches	nsubj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 headaches	amod
13	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 headaches	amod
14	headaches	headache	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 say	cc
17	through	through	ADP	_	20 course	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 course	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 course	amod
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 nights	case
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 nights	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 half	punct
24	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 course	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 course	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 say	nsubj:outer
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 say	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 kept	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 balls	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 balls	case
32	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 balls	compound
33	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 say	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the diary				tree rules
2	grow	gerund	the diary not said here		time		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	headache		amid				tree rules
4	is	present	that	a long course of half nights		say 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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