Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 169
During the last years of my life I was sick and miserable, and I was unable to bear creeping out of bed suddenly into the frost and cold.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bear, creep out · To what, where: bed, frost
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 (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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sick | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sick | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sick | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sick | cop |
| 10 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 miserable | cc |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 unable | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 unable | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 unable | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 unable | cop |
| 17 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sick | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bear | mark |
| 19 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 unable | xcomp |
| 20 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 bear | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creeping | obl |
| 24 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 creeping | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 frost | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 frost | det |
| 27 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 creeping | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cold | cc |
| 29 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 frost | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | year | of my life; sick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | I | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | creep out | gerund | I not said here | bed | the frost and cold | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=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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