Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 55
He could not any longer endure to witness all this agony of grief, he therefore flew away to his own rose in the garden.
Who acts: elf · What happens: not endure, fly away · To what, where: witness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 endure | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 endure | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 endure | advmod |
| 4 | any | any | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 endure | advmod |
| 6 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 witness | mark |
| 8 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 endure | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 agony | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 agony | det |
| 11 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 endure | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grief | case |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agony | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 endure | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 rose | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 rose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rose | amod |
| 22 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 endure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not endure | could | elf | witness | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly away | past | elf | to elf's own rose in the garden result; away, therefore property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to rose=Result |
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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