Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 37
I work hard and suffer pain with my poor hands," said she, "but I do it willingly, that I may be able to bring you up honestly and truthfully, my dear boy."
Who acts: I, child · What happens: work, suffer, say, do, be, bring up · To what, where: pain, you · 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, child), 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 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 work | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 suffer | cc |
| 5 | suffer | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suffer | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hands | amod |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 suffer | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 she | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 she | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 19 do | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 able | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 able | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 able | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 able | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 able | cop |
| 27 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 bring | mark |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 able | xcomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 bring | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 bring | compound:prt |
| 32 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 29 bring | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 truthfully | cc |
| 34 | truthfully | truthfully | ADV | _ | 32 honestly | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 boy | punct |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 boy | nmod:poss |
| 37 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 boy | amod |
| 38 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | I | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | present | I not said here | pain | with my poor hands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | present | I | pain | willingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | is | may | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring up | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | honestly property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=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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