Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 60
Now my sea-sickness has past: delicate people can bear a great deal."
Who acts: delicate people · What happens: past, bear · To what, where: sea sickness, great deal
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delicate people), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 past | advmod |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sickness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sickness | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 past | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 past | aux |
| 7 | past | past | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 9 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bear | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bear | aux |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 past | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | past | present · perfect · passive | my sea sickness | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | can | delicate people | a great deal | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=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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