Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 42

His dwelling was cold and comfortless; and how long would he be obliged to bear all this?

Who acts: dwelling · What happens: be, oblige, bear · To what, where: Jurgen, this

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 (dwelling), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dwelling	nmod:poss
2	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 comfortless	cc
6	comfortless	comfortless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cold	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 obliged	cc
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 obliged	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 obliged	nsubj
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cold	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 bear	mark
16	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	advcl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 this	det:predet
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 bear	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jurgen's dwelling		cold property	tree rules
2	be		Jurgen's dwelling not said here			tree rules
3	oblige	would · passive		Jurgen	long property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	bear	to-infinitive		this		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient

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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