Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 34

There was only a rough bench in the cell; but a good conscience is a soft pillow, and therefore Jurgen could sleep well.

Who acts: rough bench, good conscience, Jurgen · What happens: be, sleep · To what, where: soft pillow

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rough bench, good conscience, Jurgen), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 bench	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bench	det
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bench	amod
6	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cell	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cell	det
9	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bench	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pillow	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 pillow	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 conscience	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 conscience	amod
14	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pillow	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pillow	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pillow	det
17	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pillow	amod
18	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sleep	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sleep	cc
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	24 sleep	advmod
22	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sleep	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	aux
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pillow	conj
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 sleep	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a rough bench in the cell		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	a good conscience	a soft pillow			tree rules
3	sleep	could	Jurgen			therefore, well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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