--- title: Cold nights, bad living, and blows had to be endured; then he felt h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Cold nights, bad living, and blows had to be endured; then he felt his noble Spanish blood boil within him, and bitter, angry, words rose to his lips, but he gulped them down; it was better, although he felt as the eel must feel when it is skinned, cut up, and put into the frying-pan. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cold nights, Jurgen, words, eel), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:160:5 # text = Cold nights, bad living, and blows had to be endured; then he felt his noble Spanish blood boil within him, and bitter, angry, words rose to his lips, but he gulped them down; it was better, although he felt as the eel must feel when it is skinned, cut up, and put into the frying-pan. 1 Cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 blows blow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 endured endure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 18 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 Spanish Spanish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 boil boil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 within within ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 gulped gulp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 expl _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 although although SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 49 as as SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 48 ccomp _ _ 54 when when SCONJ WRB _ 57 mark _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 57 skinned skinned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 59 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 57 conj _ _ 60 up up ADP RP _ 59 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 63 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 59 conj _ _ 64 into into ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 65 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 66 frying frying NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Cold nights and bad living | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **endure** | to-infinitive · passive | Cold nights and bad living *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **feel** | past | Jurgen | Jurgen's noble Spanish blood boil | | | then | within boy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boil=Theme | | 4 | **rise** | past | words | | | Jurgen's lips | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lip=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **gulp down** | past | Jurgen | words *= word* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | past | Jurgen | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **feel** | must | the eel | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 9 | **is** | present | eel | | | | | skinned *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **cut up** | participle | eel *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 11 | **put** | participle | eel *not said here* | | | the frying pan | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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. 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