Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 101

"That is terrible disease for a Snow Man," said the yard-dog; "I have suffered from it myself, but I got over it.

Who acts: That, terrible disease · What happens: be, say, suffer, get over · To what, where: terrible disease, yard dog, disease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, terrible disease), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 disease	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 disease	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 disease	cop
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 disease	amod
5	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 Man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Man	det
8	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Man	compound
9	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 disease	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 disease	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 disease	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
14	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dog	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 yard	punct
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 suffered	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 suffered	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 suffered	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 suffered	aux
21	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 suffered	obl
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	21 suffered	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
29	over	over	ADV	_	28 got	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	terrible disease		for a Snow Man	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	terrible disease	the yard dog			tree rules
3	suffer in a quote	present · perfect	terrible disease = disease	terrible disease = disease	disease		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	get over in a quote	past	terrible disease = disease	disease		over property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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