Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 22

Such grief is not for the world; it is not entertaining even to friends, and poor Knud had no friends; he was a stranger, wandering through strange lands to his home in the north.

Who acts: Such grief, grief, poor Knud, Knud · What happens: not be, not entertain, have, be, wonder · To what, where: friends, stranger, strange lands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such grief, grief, poor Knud, Knud), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grief	amod
2	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 world	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 world	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 entertaining	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 entertaining	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 entertaining	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 entertaining	advmod
12	entertaining	entertain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 world	appos
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 friends	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 friends	case
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 entertaining	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Knud	amod
19	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 entertaining	conj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 friends	det
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stranger	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stranger	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stranger	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stranger	det
27	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entertaining	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wandering	punct
29	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 entertaining	conj
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 lands	case
31	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lands	amod
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wandering	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 home	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 home	nmod:poss
35	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lands	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 north	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 north	det
38	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 home	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 world	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Such grief			for the world	tree rules
2	not entertain	present · progressive	grief			to friends	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	past	poor Knud	no friends			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
4	is a	past	Knud	a stranger			tree rules
5	wonder speech: ask	gerund	grief not said here		strange lands to Knud's home in the north		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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