Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 87
It was your hard words, your despair of mankind, your gloomy belief in God and His creation, which drove me to you.
Who acts: grant, gloomy belief, mankind, your, God · What happens: be, drive, despair, believe, create · To what, where: hard words, me, you
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 (grant, gloomy belief, mankind, your), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 despair | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 despair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mankind | case |
| 10 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 despair | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 belief | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 belief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 belief | amod |
| 14 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 words | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 belief | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 creation | cc |
| 18 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 creation | nmod:poss |
| 19 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 God | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drove | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 drove | nsubj |
| 22 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 belief | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 drove | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 drove | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | grant | your hard words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | past | your gloomy belief in God and God's creation | me | you | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | despair | mankind | nom despair «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | believe | your | in God and God's creation | nom belief «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl | |||||
| 5 | create | God | nom creation «act transitive»: poss=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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