Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 80

As he thought upon all this, the strap of his knapsack pressed across his chest so that he could hardly breathe; he loosened it, but gained no relief.

Who acts: Kjoge · What happens: think, press, breathe, loosen, gain · To what, where: strap, knapsack, chest, relief

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 (Kjoge), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 this	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 this	det:predet
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strap	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strap	det
9	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 knapsack	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knapsack	nmod:poss
12	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strap	nmod
13	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 knapsack	acl
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 chest	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chest	nmod:poss
16	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pressed	obl
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 breathe	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 breathe	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 breathe	aux
21	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	22 breathe	advmod
22	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pressed	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 loosened	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loosened	nsubj
25	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 loosened	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gained	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 gained	cc
29	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 loosened	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 relief	det
31	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gained	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Kjoge	the strap of Kjoge's knapsack		upon this	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	press	participle		Kjoge's knapsack not said here	Kjoge's chest		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent across chest=Trajectory
3	breathe	could	Kjoge			hardly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	loosen	past	Kjoge	chest			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	gain	past	Kjoge not said here	no relief			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relief=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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