Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 147
Since then I have worked, toiled, and striven for the sake of the child.
Who acts: I · What happens: work, toil, strive
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), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 then | case |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 worked | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 worked | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worked | aux |
| 5 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 toiled | punct |
| 7 | toiled | toil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 worked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 striven | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 striven | cc |
| 10 | striven | strive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 worked | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sake | det |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 striven | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sake | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present · perfect | I | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | toil | participle | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strive | participle | I not said here | for the sake of the child | tree rules |
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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