Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 93
It did his heart good, for it had been sorely tried.
Who acts: home · What happens: do, try · To what, where: heart, home
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 (home), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tried | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 tried | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tried | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tried | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 tried | aux:pass |
| 11 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 12 tried | advmod |
| 12 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | home | Jurgen's heart | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | try | past · perfect · passive | home | sorely property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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