Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 54

True, water is softer than your own delicate hands, and yet it polishes stones into shapes; it feels no pain as your fingers would feel, it has no soul, and cannot suffer such agony and torment as you will have to endure.

Who acts: True water, water, it, fingers, you · What happens: be, polish, feel, have, not suffer, endure · To what, where: stones, shapes, pain, soul, such agony

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 (True water, water, it, fingers), 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	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 softer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 softer	cop
5	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 hands	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
9	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hands	amod
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 softer	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 polishes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 polishes	cc
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 polishes	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 polishes	nsubj
15	polishes	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 softer	parataxis
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 polishes	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	18 shapes	case
18	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 polishes	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 feels	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 feels	nsubj
21	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 softer	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 pain	det
23	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feels	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 feel	mark
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fingers	nmod:poss
26	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 feel	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 feel	aux
28	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feels	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 feels	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 soul	det
33	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 suffer	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 suffer	cc
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 suffer	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 suffer	advmod
38	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 has	conj
39	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 agony	amod
40	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 suffer	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 torment	cc
42	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 agony	conj
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 have	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 have	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 have	aux
46	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 suffer	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 endure	mark
48	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 have	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 softer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	True water				than your own delicate hands; soft property	tree rules
2	polish	present	water	stones	shapes	yet		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Destination
3	feel	present	it	no pain				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
4	feel	would	your fingers					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	present	water	no soul				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient
6	not suffer	can	water not said here	such agony and torment				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer agony=Stimulus
7	have	future	you					tree rules
8	endure	to-infinitive	you not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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