Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 190

Sister Ida became the wife of a peasant; that was the hardest trial which befell our father, that the husband of his own daughter should be a miserable serf, whom his owner could place for punishment on the wooden horse.

Who acts: Sister, that, hardest trial, husband · What happens: become, be, befall, place · To what, where: wife, hardest trial, father, miserable serf

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 (Sister, that, hardest trial, husband), 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	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
2	Ida	Ida	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sister	appos
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 peasant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 trial	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 trial	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trial	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trial	det
13	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 trial	amod
14	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 befell	nsubj
16	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trial	acl:relcl
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 befell	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 serf	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 serf	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 husband	det
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 serf	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 daughter	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 daughter	amod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 husband	nmod
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 serf	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 serf	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 serf	det
30	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 serf	amod
31	serf	serf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trial	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 place	punct
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 place	nsubj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 owner	nmod:poss
35	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 place	aux
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trial	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 punishment	case
39	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	43 horse	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 horse	det
42	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 horse	amod
43	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 place	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Sister	the wife of a peasant		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	that	the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place		tree rules
3	befall	past	the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place	our father		tree rules
4	is a	should	the husband of husband's own daughter	a miserable serf		tree rules
5	place	could	the hardest trial and a miserable serf and place		for punishment; on the wooden horse	tree rules

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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