Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 20

To this home he clung with deep-rooted affection; he was to experience cold and hunger, and the misfortunes and hardships that surround the poor; but he also tasted of their joys.

Who acts: man, misfortunes, hardships · What happens: cling, root, be, surround, taste, joy · To what, where: misfortunes, poor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (man, misfortunes, hardships), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 home	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 home	det
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clung	nsubj
5	clung	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 affection	case
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 affection	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 deep	punct
9	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 affection	amod
10	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clung	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 experience	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 experience	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 experience	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 experience	mark
15	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clung	conj
16	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 experience	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hunger	cc
18	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cold	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 misfortunes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 misfortunes	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 misfortunes	det
22	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clung	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hardships	cc
24	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 misfortunes	conj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 surround	nsubj
26	surround	surround	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 misfortunes	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poor	det
28	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 surround	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tasted	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 tasted	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tasted	nsubj
32	also	also	ADV	_	33 tasted	advmod
33	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clung	parataxis
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 joys	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 joys	nmod:poss
36	joys	joy	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tasted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cling	past	man	the misfortunes and hardships	to this home; with deep rooted affection	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to home=Co-Theme
2	root	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	man		experience property	tree rules
4	surround	present	the misfortunes and hardships	the poor		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme poor=Co-Theme
5	taste	past	man		of hardships's joys	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	joy		hardships = hardship			nom joy «feeling 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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