Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 65

The injured man's brain was affected, and in his delirium he uttered wild cries; but on the third day he lay quiet and weak upon his bed; his life seemed to hang by a thread, and the physician said it would be better for him if this thread broke. "

Who acts: Jurgen, life, physician, thread · What happens: affect, utter, lie, seem, hang, say · To what, where: brain, wild cries, delirium · Speech: someone speaks here

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, life, physician, thread), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brain	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 man	case
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affected	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 affected	aux:pass
7	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 uttered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 uttered	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 delirium	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 delirium	nmod:poss
12	delirium	delirium	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 uttered	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 uttered	nsubj
14	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 affected	conj
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cries	amod
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 uttered	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 lay	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 affected	parataxis
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 weak	cc
27	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 quiet	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bed	nmod:poss
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 weak	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 seemed	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 life	nmod:poss
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seemed	nsubj
34	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hang	mark
36	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 seemed	xcomp
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 thread	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 thread	det
39	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hang	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 said	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 physician	det
43	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 said	nsubj
44	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	conj
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 better	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 better	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 better	cop
48	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 said	ccomp
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 better	obl
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 broke	mark
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 thread	det
53	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 broke	nsubj
54	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 better	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 affected	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 affected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	past · passive		the injured man's brain				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	utter speech: other	past	Jurgen	wild cries	Jurgen's delirium			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
3	lie	past	Jurgen			day	quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	seem	past	Jurgen's life					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	hang	to-infinitive	Jurgen's life not said here				by a thread	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by thread=Location
6	say speech: assert	past	the physician					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	would	physician				for Jurgen; good property	tree rules
8	break a condition, not said to happen	past	this thread					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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