Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 93
So much learning was quite a heavy weight for him to carry.
Who acts: much learning, sunbeam · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: heavy weight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much learning, sunbeam), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 learning | amod |
| 3 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weight | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weight | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 weight | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 weight | det |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weight | amod |
| 8 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 carry | mark |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 weight | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 weight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | much learning | quite heavy weight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | sunbeam | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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