Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 94
He had drunk the bitter goblet of love which softens or hardens the heart, according to circumstances.
Who acts: Jurgen, bitter goblet · What happens: drink, soften, harden, accord · To what, where: bitter goblet, heart
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, bitter goblet), 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 drunk | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drunk | aux |
| 3 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goblet | det |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goblet | amod |
| 6 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drunk | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 love | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goblet | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 softens | nsubj |
| 10 | softens | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goblet | acl:relcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hardens | cc |
| 12 | hardens | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 softens | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hardens | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 circumstances | punct |
| 16 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 circumstances | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 according | fixed |
| 18 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hardens | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past · perfect | Jurgen | the bitter goblet of love | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | soften | present | the bitter goblet of love | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | harden | present | the bitter goblet of love not said here | the heart | accord circumstances | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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