Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 32

Then he would vex and fret himself because they did not laugh at the right time, or because they laughed in the wrong places; and so he fretted and worried himself till at last the unhappy man fretted himself into the grave.

Who acts: public, things, unhappy man · What happens: vex, fret, not laugh, laugh, worry · To what, where: public, last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public, things, unhappy man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 vex	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vex	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vex	aux
4	vex	vex	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fret	cc
6	fret	fret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vex	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 fret	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 laugh	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laugh	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laugh	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 laugh	advmod
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fret	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laugh	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 laughed	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 laughed	cc
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 laughed	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 laughed	nsubj
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vex	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 places	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 places	det
24	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 places	amod
25	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 laughed	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 fretted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fretted	cc
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 fretted	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fretted	nsubj
30	fretted	fret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 worried	cc
32	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fretted	conj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 worried	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 fretted	mark
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 last	case
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fretted	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
38	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 man	amod
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fretted	nsubj
40	fretted	fret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 worried	advcl
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 fretted	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 grave	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 grave	det
44	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fretted	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vex	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vex	would	public			then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fret	infinitive	public not said here	public				tree rules
3	not laugh	past · do-support	things = thing			time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	past	things = thing				in the wrong places	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in place=Theme
5	fret	past	public					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	worry	past	public not said here	public				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
7	fret	past	the unhappy man	public	last		into the grave	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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