Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 88
No one cares for me, nor troubles himself about me; and I have enough to do to sew my grave clothes."
Who acts: one, I, enough · What happens: care, trouble, have, do, sew · To what, where: king, enough, grave clothes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, enough), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cares | nsubj |
| 3 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cares | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 troubles | punct |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 troubles | cc |
| 8 | troubles | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cares | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 troubles | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 troubles | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cares | conj |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enough | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sew | mark |
| 20 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 do | advcl |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 clothes | amod |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 sew | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | no one | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trouble | present | no one not said here | king | about me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | have | present | I | enough | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | enough not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sew | to-infinitive | enough not said here | my grave clothes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Product |
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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