Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 14

And he thought it over and over, but it would not do, and so he had recourse to magic.

Who acts: Krabble, business · What happens: think, not do, have · To what, where: business, recourse

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Krabble, business), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 thought	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	3 thought	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 over	cc
7	over	over	ADV	_	5 over	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 do	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
19	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 magic	case
21	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Krabble	business		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	not do	would	business			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Krabble	recourse	to magic	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=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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