Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 167

"In what manner did you leave the world?" he asked, just for the sake of saying something; for it made him feel very weary to stand there and wait.

Who acts: you, mercy, sake, world · What happens: leave, ask, say, make, feel, stand · To what, where: world, manner, something, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mercy, sake, world), 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	_	7 leave	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	4 manner	case
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 manner	det
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sake	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 sake	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 sake	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sake	det
18	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 saying	mark
20	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sake	acl
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 saying	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 made	xcomp
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 weary	advmod
29	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feel	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 stand	mark
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 weary	xcomp
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 stand	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wait	cc
34	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 stand	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past · do-support	you	the world	what manner		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme in manner=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	mercy			for the sake	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the sake not said here	something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	make	past	world	mercy			tree rules
5	feel	infinitive	mercy not said here			weary property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	stand	to-infinitive	mercy not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wait	infinitive	mercy not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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