Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 77

The water rolls on without weariness," she said, "till all that is hard becomes smooth; so will I be unwearied in my task.

Who acts: water, growth, all, hard, I, my · What happens: roll on, say, be, become, task · To what, where: task · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, growth, all, hard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	nsubj
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 rolls	compound:prt
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 weariness	case
6	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rolls	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 becomes	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 becomes	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 hard	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hard	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 hard	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hard	cop
17	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 becomes	nsubj
18	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
19	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 becomes	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 unwearied	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	25 unwearied	advmod
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 unwearied	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 unwearied	nsubj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 unwearied	cop
25	unwearied	unwearied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rolls	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 task	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 task	nmod:poss
28	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 unwearied	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	roll on	present	the water		without weariness	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	growth			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	all		hard property	tree rules
4	become	present	hard		smooth property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is	future	I	my task	unwearied property	tree rules
6	task		my			nom task «act 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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