Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 50

He rested on the waves, he trod the water--in fact, did everything he could think of, in order not to fatigue himself, and to reserve strength enough to reach land.

Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: rest, tread, do, think, not fatigue, reserve · To what, where: waves, water, everything, fact, Jurgen, strength

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rested	nsubj
2	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 waves	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 waves	det
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rested	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trod	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trod	nsubj
8	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rested	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trod	obj
11	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 fact	case
13	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fact	punct
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trod	conj
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 did	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 think	aux
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 everything	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 think	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 order	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 order	case
23	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 fatigue	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fatigue	mark
26	fatigue	fatigue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 order	acl:relcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 fatigue	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reserve	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reserve	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 reserve	mark
31	reserve	reserve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 rested	parataxis
32	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reserve	obj
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 reserve	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 reach	mark
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 reserve	advcl
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reach	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	Jurgen		the waves		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on wave=Location
2	tread	past	Jurgen	the water			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location water=Theme
3	do	past	Jurgen not said here	everything	fact	in order	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	could	Jurgen				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not fatigue	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here	Jurgen			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	reserve	to-infinitive		strength		enough property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
7	reach	to-infinitive		land			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme

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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