Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 30

Once I saw one of them drop her load; she gave herself a great deal of trouble in trying to raise it again, but she could not succeed.

Who acts: I, one, rest, trouble · What happens: see, drop, give, try, raise, not succeed · To what, where: load, great deal, rest, deal, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, rest, trouble), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 saw	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 drop	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 one	nmod
7	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 load	nmod:poss
9	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drop	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 gave	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deal	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deal	amod
16	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 trouble	case
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deal	nmod
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 trying	mark
20	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 trouble	acl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 raise	mark
22	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 trying	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raise	obj
24	again	again	ADV	_	22 raise	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 succeed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 succeed	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 succeed	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 succeed	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 succeed	advmod
30	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gave	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	see	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	drop	present	one of burdens	rest's load			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
3	give	past	rest	a great deal of trouble	rest		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient deal=Theme
4	try	gerund	trouble not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	raise not said to happen	to-infinitive	trouble not said here	deal		again	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	not succeed	could	rest				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	deal			trouble			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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.

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