Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 32
The pastor raised himself in bed and stretched his arms towards her, saying, "Not even you can find eternal rest!
Who acts: pastor, you · What happens: raise, stretch, say, not find · To what, where: pastor, bed, arms, eternal rest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor, you), 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 | 2 pastor | det |
| 2 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stretched | cc |
| 8 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretched | obj |
| 11 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stretched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stretched | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 find | punct |
| 17 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 find | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 find | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rest | amod |
| 23 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the pastor | pastor | bed | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | the pastor not said here | pastor's arms | towards wife | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient towards she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | the pastor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not find in a quote | can | you | eternal rest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
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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