Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 10

"Yes, that is your misfortune," said the fence-rail; "you are so fickle, so unsettled; you must always be travelling about into foreign lands when the cold commences here.

Who acts: that, misfortune, you, cold · What happens: be, say, travel, commence · To what, where: misfortune, fence rail, foreign lands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, misfortune, you, cold), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 misfortune	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 misfortune	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 misfortune	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 misfortune	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 misfortune	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 misfortune	nmod:poss
7	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 misfortune	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 misfortune	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rail	det
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rail	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 fence	punct
14	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 fickle	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 fickle	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 fickle	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fickle	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 fickle	advmod
20	fickle	fickle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 unsettled	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 unsettled	advmod
23	unsettled	unsettled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fickle	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 travelling	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 travelling	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 travelling	aux
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 travelling	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 travelling	aux
29	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 travelling	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 lands	case
32	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lands	amod
33	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 travelling	obl
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 commences	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cold	det
36	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 commences	nsubj
37	commences	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 travelling	advcl
38	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 commences	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	your misfortune			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	your misfortune	the fence rail			tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	you			fickle property	tree rules
4	be in a quote		you not said here				tree rules
5	travel in a quote	must · progressive	you		foreign lands	about, always property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into land=Destination
6	commence in a quote	present	the cold		here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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