Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 111
The journey had also tired Kaela; but she was always fatigued, that was the worst of it.
Who acts: journey, that · What happens: have, fatigue, be · To what, where: tired Kaela, Kaela
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 (journey, that), 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 | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 Kaela | advmod |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Kaela | amod |
| 6 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fatigued | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 fatigued | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fatigued | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fatigued | aux:pass |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 fatigued | advmod |
| 12 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worst | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 worst | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 worst | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 worst | det |
| 17 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 fatigued | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 worst | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the journey | tired Kaela | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fatigue | past · passive | Kaela | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | of journey; bad property | 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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