Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 18

It is not always easy to find bacon and cheese-rind in foreign lands every day, and it is not pleasant to have to endure hunger, and be perhaps, after all, eaten up alive by the cat."

Who acts: trouble, cat · What happens: not be, find, have, endure, be, eat up · To what, where: bacon, hunger, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, cat), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 easy	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easy	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 easy	advmod
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 easy	advmod
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easy	csubj
8	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rind	cc
10	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rind	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 cheese	punct
12	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bacon	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 lands	case
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lands	amod
15	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rind	nmod
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lands	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pleasant	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pleasant	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pleasant	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 pleasant	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 pleasant	advmod
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 easy	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pleasant	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 endure	mark
27	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	xcomp
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 endure	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 perhaps	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 perhaps	cc
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 perhaps	cop
32	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	37 eaten	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 all	punct
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 all	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 eaten	nsubj:pass
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eaten	punct
37	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 easy	csubj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 eaten	compound:prt
39	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 eaten	xcomp
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 cat	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cat	det
42	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eaten	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present			always, easy property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		bacon and cheese rind in foreign lands every day		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacon=Topic
3	not is	present	trouble		pleasant property	tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive	trouble not said here			tree rules
5	endure	to-infinitive	trouble not said here	hunger		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hunger=Circumstance
6	is	infinitive			perhaps property	tree rules
7	eat up	participle · passive	the cat	all	alive property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/178/18/