Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 26

And then do you not think that the beast of burden, which suffers blows and hunger, and works itself to death, suffers just as much from its miserable fate?

Who acts: you, burden, beast · What happens: not think, suffer, work, fate · To what, where: blows, beast · 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 (you, burden, beast), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 think	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 think	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 suffers	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beast	det
9	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 suffers	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 burden	case
11	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beast	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 suffers	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 suffers	nsubj
14	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 burden	acl:relcl
15	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 suffers	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hunger	cc
17	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 works	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 works	cc
20	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 suffers	conj
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 works	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 works	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beast	punct
25	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	25 suffers	advmod
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 fate	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fate	nmod:poss
31	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fate	amod
32	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 much	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	you		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	suffer	present	burden	blows and hunger			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus
3	work	present	burden not said here	beast		to death	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material
4	suffer	present	the beast of burden				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	fate		beast				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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