Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 69
He was hurt while endeavouring to save our child," said the old man, "and now he is our son."
Who acts: old man, Jurgen · What happens: hurt, endeavour, save, say, be · To what, where: Jurgen, child, son · 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 (old man, 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 | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | aux:pass |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 endeavouring | mark |
| 5 | endeavouring | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 save | mark |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 endeavouring | xcomp |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 endeavouring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 endeavouring | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurt | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurt | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 son | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 son | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 son | cop |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | Jurgen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | endeavour | gerund | the old man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | our child | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | Jurgen | our son | now | 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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