Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 76
All his great mental abilities had been lost, nothing but hardship, sorrow, and disappointment had been his fate.
Who acts: disappointment · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: great mental abilities, fate
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 (disappointment), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 abilities | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 abilities | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 abilities | amod |
| 4 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 abilities | amod |
| 5 | abilities | ability | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lost | aux:pass |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hardship | cc |
| 12 | hardship | hardship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorrow | punct |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fate | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fate | cc |
| 17 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fate | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fate | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 fate | cop |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · perfect · passive | end's great mental abilities | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | disappointment | end's fate | 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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