Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 22

"Yes, it has been given to us," said the young wife, "but this life is nothing more than one long scene of trial and hardship to many thousands.

Who acts: young wife, life · What happens: give, say, be · To what, where: world, us, many thousands, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wife, life), 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 given	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 given	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 given	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 given	aux:pass
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 given	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wife	amod
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wife	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wife	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 nothing	cc
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 life	det
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nothing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 nothing	cop
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 wife	conj
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 nothing	amod
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 scene	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 scene	nummod
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scene	amod
27	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 more	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 trial	case
29	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scene	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hardship	cc
31	hardship	hardship	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trial	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 thousands	case
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thousands	amod
34	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · perfect · passive		world	us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the young wife		many thousands	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to thousand=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	this life	nothing		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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