Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 71
Everyday necessity is the stagnant pool of life--no lovely picture reflects itself therein.
Who acts: Everyday necessity, lovely picture · What happens: be, reflect · To what, where: stagnant pool, necessity
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (Everyday necessity, lovely picture), 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 | Everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 necessity | amod |
| 2 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pool | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pool | det |
| 5 | stagnant | stagnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pool | amod |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pool | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 reflects | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 picture | det |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 picture | amod |
| 12 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflects | nsubj |
| 13 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pool | conj |
| 14 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 reflects | obj |
| 15 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 13 reflects | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Everyday necessity | the stagnant pool | of life | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reflect | present | no lovely picture | necessity | therein 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: «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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