Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 67
He was to travel this path now, for no goblet of life is all bitterness; no good man would pour out such a draught for his fellow-man, and how should He do it, Who is love personified?
Who acts: Jurgen, goblet, good man · What happens: be, pour out, do, personify · To what, where: draught, love
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, goblet, good man), 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 | 4 travel | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 travel | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 travel | mark |
| 4 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 path | det |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 travel | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bitterness | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 bitterness | case |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bitterness | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goblet | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bitterness | cop |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 bitterness | det |
| 16 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 travel | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 pour | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 man | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pour | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pour | aux |
| 22 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 travel | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 pour | compound:prt |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 draught | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 draught | det |
| 26 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pour | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 man | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fellow | punct |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pour | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 do | cc |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 do | advmod |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 36 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 travel | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 do | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 love | punct |
| 40 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 love | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 love | cop |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 do | parataxis |
| 43 | personified | personify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 love | acl |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | now | travel property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | no goblet of life | for all bitterness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pour out | would | no good man | such draught | for Jurgen's fellow man | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent draught=Patient for man=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | do | should | Jurgen | draught | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | love | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | personify | participle | love not said here | 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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