Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 88
I had no more insults or disappointments to endure; although, indeed, there was a hole through me, as if I were false; but suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for an will be made right in time.
Who acts: I, suspicions, man, one · What happens: have, endure, be, persevere, act, make · To what, where: more insults, nothing, an
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 (I, suspicions, man, one), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 insults | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 insults | amod |
| 5 | insults | insult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 disappointments | cc |
| 7 | disappointments | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 insults | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 endure | mark |
| 9 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 insults | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 false | punct |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 26 false | mark |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 although | punct |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 16 was | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 indeed | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 false | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hole | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 false | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 false | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 false | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 false | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 false | cop |
| 26 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 nothing | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 nothing | cc |
| 29 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 nothing | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 nothing | cop |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 had | parataxis |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 37 true | mark |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 true | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 true | cop |
| 36 | really | really | ADV | _ | 37 true | advmod |
| 37 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 nothing | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 persevere | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 persevere | cc |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 persevere | nsubj |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 persevere | aux |
| 43 | persevere | persevere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 true | parataxis |
| 44 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 45 acting | mark |
| 45 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 persevere | advcl |
| 46 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 45 acting | advmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 made | punct |
| 48 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 52 made | mark |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 made | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 made | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 made | aux:pass |
| 52 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 persevere | parataxis |
| 53 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 made | xcomp |
| 54 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 time | case |
| 55 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 right | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | no more insults or disappointments | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Patient | ||||
| 2 | endure | to-infinitive | I not said here | no more insults or disappointments not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | I | false property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | suspicions | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | a man | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | persevere | should | every one | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | act | gerund | every one not said here | honestly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | make | future · passive | an | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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