Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 45

She could get no bread for me, and I felt quite grieved to the heart that I should be cause of so much trouble to another, and be treated as a cast-off coin.

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: get, grieve, cause, treat · To what, where: bread, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grieved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grieved	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 grieved	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grieved	aux
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 grieved	advmod
13	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 get	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 heart	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 heart	det
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grieved	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cause	nsubj:pass
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 cause	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 cause	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 cause	aux:pass
21	cause	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 heart	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 trouble	case
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 trouble	amod
25	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cause	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 trouble	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 treated	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 treated	cc
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 treated	aux:pass
31	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grieved	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	37 coin	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 coin	det
34	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 off	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 cast	punct
36	off	off	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 coin	compound
37	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 treated	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	could	woman	no bread	for me	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bread=Theme for i=Beneficiary
2	grieve	past	I		to the heart	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	cause	should · passive		the heart	of much trouble to another	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	treat	infinitive · passive	I not said here		as a off coin	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as coin=Attribute

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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