Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 114
I passed through a dreadful night; God knows what I suffered, and how I struggled.
Who acts: I, God · What happens: pass, know, suffer, struggle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, God), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 5 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 suffered | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 suffered | nsubj |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knows | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struggled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 struggled | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 struggled | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 struggled | nsubj |
| 17 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knows | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | I | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | struggle | past | I | vn battle-36.4 «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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