Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 78
Can the heart's flame die in the flame of the funeral pile?”
Who acts: flame, heart, funeral pile · What happens: die, flame
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (flame, heart, funeral pile), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 flame | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flame | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 heart | case |
| 5 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 flame | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flame | det |
| 9 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pile | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pile | det |
| 12 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pile | compound |
| 13 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flame | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | the heart's flame | in the flame of the funeral pile | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in flame=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | flame | the heart | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | flame | the funeral pile | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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