Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 64
Bronne heard the whole story; he was kind-hearted, and understood what Jurgen must have felt and suffered.
Who acts: Bronne, thing, Jurgen · What happens: hear, be, understand, feel, suffer · To what, where: whole story · 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 (Bronne, thing, 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 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hearted | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hearted | cop |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hearted | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 11 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 understood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 understood | cc |
| 14 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 felt | obj |
| 16 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 felt | aux |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 understood | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 suffered | cc |
| 21 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 felt | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Bronne | the whole story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | thing | hearted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | past | Bronne not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel | must · perfect | Jurgen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | suffer | participle | Jurgen not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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