Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 27
Then he went on board again, and once more encountered rough words and blows, much work and little sleep--such was his experience of life.
Who acts: quantity · What happens: go, encounter, be · To what, where: board, rough words, such experience
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantity), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 encountered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 encountered | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 encountered | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 encountered | advmod |
| 11 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 encountered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blows | cc |
| 15 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 words | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 work | punct |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 work | amod |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sleep | cc |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sleep | amod |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 experience | punct |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 experience | amod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 experience | cop |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 experience | nmod:poss |
| 26 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 experience | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | quantity | board | then; again | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location | |||
| 2 | encounter | past | quantity not said here | rough words and blows and much work and little sleep and quantity's such experience | once property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | quantity not said here | quantity's such experience | of life | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/160/27/