Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 70

But guessing was of very little use; it made his bark ache, and this pain is as bad for a slender fir-tree, as headache is for us.

Who acts: guessing, use, pain, headache, top · What happens: guess, be, make, ache · To what, where: bark ache

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guessing, use, pain, headache), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 guessing	cc
2	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 use	csubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 use	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 use	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	amod
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 use	advcl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ache	nmod:poss
12	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ache	compound
13	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bad	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bad	cc
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 pain	det
17	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bad	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 bad	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 bad	advmod
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	26 tree	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tree	det
23	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tree	amod
24	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tree	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 fir	punct
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bad	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 us	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 us	mark
29	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 us	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 us	cop
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 made	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	guess	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	guessing		of little use	tree rules
3	make	past	use	top's bark ache		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product
4	is	present	this pain		for a slender fir tree; bad property	tree rules
5	is	present	headache		for us	tree rules
6	ache		top			nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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