Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 46
God gives us strength to bear much, if we try to do our best," she had said; and as he thought of this, a devout feeling came into his mind, and he folded his hands.
Who acts: God, we, room, devout feeling, Knud · What happens: give, bear, try, do, say, think · To what, where: strength, us, best, mind, hands · 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 (God, we, room, devout feeling), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bear | mark |
| 6 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strength | acl |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 bear | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 try | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 try | nsubj |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 best | nmod:poss |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 do | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 do | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 thought | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 thought | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 came | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 feeling | det |
| 30 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feeling | amod |
| 31 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | parataxis |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 mind | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mind | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 folded | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 folded | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 folded | nsubj |
| 39 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 came | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 folded | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | God | strength | us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | God not said here | strength not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | our best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · perfect | room | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other in a quote | past | God | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | past | a devout feeling | Knud's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | fold in a quote | past | Knud | Knud's hands | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 9 | mind in a quote | Knud | nom mind «cognition 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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