Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 98

It was rather ruinous certainly, and the road to it was heavy, through deep sand, but the people gladly surmounted these difficulties to get to the house of God, to sing psalms and to hear the sermon.

Who acts: church, road, people · What happens: be, surmount, get, sing, hear · To what, where: difficulties, psalms, sermon

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 (church, road, people), 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	4 ruinous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ruinous	cop
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 ruinous	advmod
4	ruinous	ruinous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 ruinous	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heavy	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heavy	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 road	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ruinous	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sand	punct
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 sand	case
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sand	amod
17	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surmounted	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 surmounted	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surmounted	nsubj
22	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	23 surmounted	advmod
23	surmounted	surmount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ruinous	conj
24	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 difficulties	det
25	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surmounted	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 surmounted	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 God	case
32	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 house	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sing	punct
34	to	to	PART	_	35 sing	mark
35	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 get	conj
36	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sing	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hear	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 hear	mark
39	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sing	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sermon	det
41	sermon	sermon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hear	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ruinous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	church		certainly, ruinous property	tree rules
2	is	past	the road to church		heavy property	tree rules
3	surmount	past	the people	this difficulties	gladly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme difficulty=Co-Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	the people not said here		to the house of God result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	the people not said here	psalms		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme
6	hear	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the sermon		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sermon=Stimulus

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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