Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 4
Affectionate sympathy and self-sacrifice for the unfortunate existed then, just as it does in our own time in many a bright example.
Who acts: Affectionate sympathy, ship · What happens: exist, do · To what, where: bright example
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 (Affectionate sympathy, ship), 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 | Affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sympathy | amod |
| 2 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 existed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sacrifice | cc |
| 4 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sacrifice | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 self | punct |
| 6 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sympathy | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 unfortunate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 unfortunate | det |
| 9 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sacrifice | nmod |
| 10 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 existed | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 does | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 does | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 does | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 does | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 existed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 time | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 does | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 example | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 example | nsubj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 example | det |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 example | amod |
| 25 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 does | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | Affectionate sympathy and self sacrifice for the unfortunate | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | ship | a bright example | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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