Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 31

And she drew her white hand over his burning forehead, and said, "God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure."

Who acts: word, God, we · What happens: draw, burn, say, give, bear, strive · To what, where: white hand, burning forehead, strength, great deal, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (word, God, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 drew	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 forehead	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 forehead	nmod:poss
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 forehead	amod
10	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gives	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 gives	punct
16	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 gives	nsubj
17	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bear	mark
20	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gives	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 deal	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deal	amod
23	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bear	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 strive	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 strive	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 strive	nsubj
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 strive	advmod
28	strive	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bear	conj
29	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 strive	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 endure	mark
31	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 strive	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	word	word's white hand	Knud's burning forehead	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	burn	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	word not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give in a quote	present	God	strength		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
5	bear in a quote	to-infinitive	God not said here	a great deal		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
6	strive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	ourselves		tree rules
7	endure in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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