Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 40

Blind and deaf he sits--an old man thrust through with the spear of suffering, and amid the torments of neglect, scarcely able to lift his foot--that foot with which, in the anguish of his soul, when men denied the truth, he stamped upon the ground, with the exclamation, "Yet it moves!"

Who acts: man, men, foot, soul · What happens: sit, lift, deny, stamp, move, torment · To what, where: old man thrust, foot, truth, ground, neglect

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, men, foot, soul), 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	Blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sits	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 deaf	cc
3	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Blind	conj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 thrust	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thrust	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thrust	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrust	compound
10	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 spear	case
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 spear	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spear	det
14	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thrust	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 suffering	case
16	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spear	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 amid	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 amid	cc
19	amid	amid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 torments	det
21	torments	torment	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 amid	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 neglect	case
23	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 torments	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 able	punct
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	26 able	advmod
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 torments	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lift	mark
28	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 foot	nmod:poss
30	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lift	obj
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 foot	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 foot	det
33	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 foot	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 foot	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 anguish	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 anguish	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 anguish	det
39	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lift	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 soul	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 soul	nmod:poss
42	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 anguish	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 denied	punct
44	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 denied	advmod
45	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 denied	nsubj
46	denied	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 anguish	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 truth	det
48	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 denied	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stamped	punct
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 stamped	nsubj
51	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 denied	conj
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 ground	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ground	det
54	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stamped	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 exclamation	punct
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 exclamation	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 exclamation	det
58	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 stamped	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 exclamation	punct
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	58 exclamation	punct
61	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	63 moves	cc
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 moves	nsubj
63	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 denied	conj
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	63 moves	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 anguish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	man	a old man thrust through the spear of suffering		amid and the torments of neglect obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lift	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's foot and that foot with man's foot and that foot with foot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	deny	past	men	the truth			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent truth=Eventuality
4	stamp	past	man		the ground	with the exclamation	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination
5	move in a quote	present	foot				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	torment			neglect			nom torment «state transitive»: of=patient
7	anguish		man's soul				nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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