Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 44
He now had plenty of time to reflect on the difference of fortune on earth, and to wonder why this fate had been allotted to him; yet he felt sure that all would be made clear in the next life, the existence that awaits us when this life is over.
Who acts: Jurgen, existence, life · What happens: have, reflect, wonder, allot, feel, make · To what, where: plenty, fate, Jurgen, all, next life, us · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, existence, life), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reflect | mark |
| 8 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 difference | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 difference | det |
| 11 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reflect | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fortune | case |
| 13 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 difference | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fortune | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wonder | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wonder | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wonder | mark |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reflect | conj |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 allotted | advmod |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fate | det |
| 22 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 allotted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 allotted | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 allotted | aux:pass |
| 25 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wonder | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 allotted | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 felt | punct |
| 29 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 felt | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 felt | nsubj |
| 31 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 32 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 felt | xcomp |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 made | mark |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 made | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 made | aux:pass |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 felt | advcl |
| 38 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 made | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 life | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 life | det |
| 41 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 life | amod |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 existence | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 existence | det |
| 45 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 life | conj |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 awaits | nsubj |
| 47 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 existence | acl:relcl |
| 48 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 awaits | obj |
| 49 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 53 over | advmod |
| 50 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 life | det |
| 51 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 over | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 over | cop |
| 53 | over | over | ADV | _ | 47 awaits | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Jurgen | plenty of time | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | reflect | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | on the difference of fortune on earth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on difference=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | allot | past · perfect · passive | this fate | Jurgen | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | Jurgen | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | make | would · passive | all | the next life and the existence | clear property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 7 | await | present | the existence | us | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | this life | over property | 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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