Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 28
They say it is good to suffer in one's young days, if age brings something to make up for it.
Who acts: words, it, age · What happens: say, be, suffer, bring, make up · To what, where: something · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, it, age), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 good | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 say | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 suffer | mark |
| 7 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 good | csubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 9 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 days | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 one | case |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 suffer | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brings | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 brings | mark |
| 15 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brings | nsubj |
| 16 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | parataxis |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 brings | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brings | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 make | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | words = word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suffer | to-infinitive | day | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present | age | something | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make up | to-infinitive | age not said here | for life | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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