Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 4
We were often obliged to suffer hunger in the library, but then we gained a great deal of knowledge.
Who acts: we · What happens: oblige, suffer, gain, deal · To what, where: We, hunger, library, great deal, knowledge
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 (we), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 obliged | advmod |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 suffer | mark |
| 6 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 obliged | xcomp |
| 7 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffer | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 library | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 library | det |
| 10 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffer | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gained | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 gained | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 gained | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gained | nsubj |
| 15 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deal | amod |
| 18 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gained | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 knowledge | case |
| 20 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deal | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | We | often property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | suffer | to-infinitive | hunger | the library | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gain | past | we | a great deal of knowledge | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | |||
| 4 | deal | knowledge | 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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