Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 4
The poor man who owned the theatre could scarcely refrain from weeping; he was so sorry that he could not help them.
Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: own, refrain, be, not help · To what, where: theatre, weeping, husband
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 refrain | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 owned | nsubj |
| 5 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 theatre | det |
| 7 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owned | obj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 refrain | aux |
| 9 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 10 refrain | advmod |
| 10 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 weeping | case |
| 12 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 refrain | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 refrain | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 help | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 help | advmod |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sorry | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 refrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | the poor man | the theatre | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot theatre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refrain | could | the poor man | weeping | scarcely property | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from weeping=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | past | man | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help | could | man | husband | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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