Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 37
The still living knight heard the sound; he could endure no more, he had neither peace nor rest.
Who acts: living knight, knight · What happens: hear, endure, have · To what, where: sound, more, peace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living knight, knight), 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 | 4 knight | det |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 living | advmod |
| 3 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 knight | amod |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 endure | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 endure | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 endure | aux |
| 11 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | conj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 endure | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 endure | parataxis |
| 17 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 peace | cc:preconj |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 rest | cc |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peace | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the living knight | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | endure | could | knight | more | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | have | past | knight | peace nor rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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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