Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 63
Jurgen had been swimming for some distance with a corpse in his arms, and had exhausted his strength for one who was dead.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: swim, exhaust, be · To what, where: 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swimming | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swimming | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 swimming | aux |
| 4 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 distance | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 distance | det |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swimming | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 corpse | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 corpse | det |
| 10 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distance | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 arms | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 corpse | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exhausted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 exhausted | cc |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 exhausted | aux |
| 17 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 swimming | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exhausted | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 exhausted | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 dead | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 dead | cop |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swimming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past · perfect · progressive | Jurgen | for some distance with a corpse in Jurgen's arms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exhaust | past · perfect | Jurgen not said here | Jurgen's strength | for one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus strength=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | past | dead property | 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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