Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 95
Death is an electric shock which our heart receives; the freed soul soars upwards on the wings of electricity.
Who acts: Death, heart, freed soul · What happens: be, receive, free, soar · To what, where: electric shock, wings
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 (Death, heart, freed soul), 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shock | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shock | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shock | det |
| 4 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shock | amod |
| 5 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 receives | obj |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 receives | nsubj |
| 9 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shock | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 soars | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soul | det |
| 12 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 soul | amod |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soars | nsubj |
| 14 | soars | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shock | conj |
| 15 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 14 soars | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 wings | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wings | det |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 soars | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 electricity | case |
| 20 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wings | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Death | a electric shock | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | present | our heart | a electric shock | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | free | participle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | soar | present | the freed soul | the wings of electricity | upwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on wing=Trajectory |
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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