Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 148
It was hard for any one to preserve composure on such a day; but these people had strong wills, as unbending as their hard fortune.
Who acts: one, people · What happens: be, preserve, have, unbend · To what, where: composure, strong wills
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hard | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 preserve | mark |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserve | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 preserve | mark |
| 8 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hard | ccomp |
| 9 | composure | composure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserve | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 day | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserve | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | conj |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wills | amod |
| 20 | wills | will | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 unbending | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 unbending | mark |
| 23 | unbending | unbend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 had | advcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 fortune | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fortune | amod |
| 27 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unbending | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preserve | to-infinitive | any one | composure | day | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | have | past | this people | strong wills | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent will=Patient | ||||
| 4 | unbend | gerund | this people not said here | as people's hard fortune | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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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