Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 61
"Ay, free, if only from the unbearable sufferings of the body!" comes in a sigh through time, and strikes upon our ear.
Who acts: body · What happens: come, strike, suffer · To what, where: sigh, ear
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 (body), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 2 | Ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 4 free | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ay | punct |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 comes | csubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sufferings | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 sufferings | mark |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 sufferings | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sufferings | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sufferings | det |
| 10 | unbearable | unbearable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sufferings | amod |
| 11 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 free | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sufferings | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sigh | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sigh | det |
| 20 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | obl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sigh | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strikes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strikes | cc |
| 25 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 comes | parataxis |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 ear | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ear | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strikes | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a sigh through time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sigh=Location | |||||
| 2 | strike | present | our ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location | |||||
| 3 | suffer in a quote | the body | nom suffering «state 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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