Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 36
"If this lasts much longer," she said, "I shall not be able to bear it."
Who acts: this, punishment · What happens: last, say, not be, bear · To what, where: hunger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, punishment), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasts | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lasts | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lasts | nsubj |
| 4 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 lasts | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lasts | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 able | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bear | mark |
| 19 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bear | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasts | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last in a quote | present | this | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | punishment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | shall | punishment | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | to-infinitive | punishment not said here | hunger | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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