Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 68
I was born with an evil mind, which has brought me hither for the second time; but if I have done wrong I suffer punishment for it.
Who acts: I · What happens: bear, bring, do, suffer · To what, where: I, evil mind, punishment
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mind | det |
| 6 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mind | amod |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 born | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mind | acl:relcl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 suffer | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 suffer | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 suffer | advcl |
| 24 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 done | xcomp |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 suffer | nsubj |
| 26 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 born | conj |
| 27 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suffer | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 suffer | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | I | with a evil mind | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | a evil mind | time | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination | |||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | I | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | suffer | present | I | punishment | for punishment | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus for it=Attribute |
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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