Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 9
Then he studied till he became ill and wretched, the wretched man!
Who acts: world · What happens: study, become
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 studied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 studied | nsubj |
| 3 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 became | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 studied | ccomp |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wretched | cc |
| 9 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ill | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ill | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | study | past | world | then | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | become | past | world | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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