Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 79

"You are killing the unfortunate man," said the pastor, and as he stretched out his hand to protect him who already suffered too much, the scene changed.

Who acts: You, pastor, much · What happens: kill, say, stretch out, protect, suffer, change · To what, where: unfortunate man, hand, pastor · 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 (You, pastor, much), 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 killing	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 killing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 killing	aux
4	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 killing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 killing	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 killing	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pastor	det
12	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stretched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stretched	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stretched	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stretched	nsubj
17	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 stretched	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stretched	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 protect	mark
22	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stretched	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 protect	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 suffered	nsubj
25	already	already	ADV	_	26 suffered	advmod
26	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 protect	advcl
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 changed	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 changed	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 scene	det
31	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 changed	nsubj
32	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 suffered	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	kill in a quote	present · progressive	You	the unfortunate man		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the pastor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stretch out	past	pastor	pastor's hand		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	protect	to-infinitive	pastor not said here		pastor	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	suffer	past				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	change	past	much			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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