Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 20
The riches and the honor came for me; Yet still my greatest wealth was poverty: Ah, help and pity me!
Who acts: riches, greatest wealth · What happens: come, be, help, pity · To what, where: poverty, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (riches, greatest wealth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 riches | det |
| 2 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 honor | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 honor | det |
| 5 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 riches | conj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 poverty | punct |
| 10 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 poverty | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 poverty | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 wealth | amod |
| 14 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poverty | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 poverty | cop |
| 16 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 18 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 20 help | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ah | punct |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 poverty | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pity | cc |
| 22 | pity | pity | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pity | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the riches and the honor | for me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | my greatest wealth | poverty | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | help | infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pity | infinitive | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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