Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 78
It's no use thinking of it; and yet one cannot help thinking of it, even far away in the peaceful town.
Who acts: wounded, use, one · What happens: be, think, not help · To what, where: use
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wounded, use, one), 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 | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | cop |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 use | det |
| 4 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 use | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 help | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 help | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 help | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 help | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 help | advmod |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | parataxis |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 help | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thinking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 away | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 away | advmod |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 away | advmod |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 help | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 24 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 town | amod |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 away | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wounded | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | no use not said here | of wounded | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not help | can | one | yet | away property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | one not said here | of wounded | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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