Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 30
It hurts him, but it shall hurt him still more."
Who acts: bruise · What happens: hurt · To what, where: magician
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 (bruise), 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 | 2 hurts | nsubj |
| 2 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hurts | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hurt | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurt | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hurt | aux |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hurts | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hurt | obj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hurt | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurts | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present | bruise | magician | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hurt | shall | bruise | magician | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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