Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 105

I was soon very tired of it, although I had my children with me; and, besides, it's very expensive work travelling, very expensive.

Who acts: I, pleasure, expensive work · What happens: be, have, travel · To what, where: children, expensive work

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pleasure, expensive work), 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	5 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 tired	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	although	although	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 work	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	besides	besides	INTJ	_	25 work	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 besides	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 work	nsubj
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 work	cop
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 expensive	advmod
24	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 work	amod
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tired	parataxis
26	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 work	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 expensive	punct
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 expensive	advmod
29	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 travelling	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		of pleasure; soon, tired property	tree rules
2	have	past	I	my children	with me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	is a	present	pleasure	expensive work		tree rules
4	travel	gerund	expensive work not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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