Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 161

Sorrow and trouble pursued him, and what he said about the good, the beautiful, and the true, was of as much value to most people as a nutmeg would be to a cow.

Who acts: Sorrow, man, nutmeg · What happens: pursue, say, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sorrow, man, nutmeg), 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	Sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 trouble	cc
3	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sorrow	conj
4	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pursued	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pursued	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 good	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 good	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beautiful	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beautiful	det
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 good	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 true	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 true	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 true	det
20	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 good	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 value	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 value	cop
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 value	case
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 value	case
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 value	amod
26	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pursued	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 value	nmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 cow	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 nutmeg	det
32	nutmeg	nutmeg	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cow	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 cow	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 cow	cop
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 cow	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cow	det
37	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 value	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pursue	past	Sorrow and trouble	man		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	man		about the good	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past			of much value; to most people	tree rules
4	is	would	a nutmeg		to a cow	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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