Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 120
Oh, what is the pain in my fingers to the torment which my heart endures?" said she. "
Who acts: heart · What happens: be, endure, say · To what, where: pain, fingers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (heart), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 pain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 pain | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pain | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pain | det |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fingers | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pain | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 torment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 torment | det |
| 12 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fingers | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 endures | obj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 endures | nsubj |
| 16 | endures | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 endures | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 endures | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pain | parataxis |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the pain | my fingers to the torment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | endure | present | my heart | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Circumstance | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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