Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 115

Every corpse is a sphynx of immortality; here too on the black coffin the sphynx gave us no answer to what he who lay within had written two days before:

Who acts: corpse, sphynx · What happens: be, give, lie, write · To what, where: sphynx, answer, us, black coffin

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, sphynx), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 corpse	det
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sphynx	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sphynx	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sphynx	det
5	sphynx	sphynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 immortality	case
7	immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sphynx	nmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sphynx	acl
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 here	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 coffin	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coffin	det
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coffin	amod
14	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sphynx	det
16	sphynx	sphynx	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 here	parataxis
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 gave	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lay	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
26	within	within	ADP	_	28 written	mark
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 written	aux
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 lay	xcomp
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 before	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADV	_	28 written	advmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 sphynx	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every corpse	a sphynx			of immortality	tree rules
2	give	past	the sphynx	no answer	us	the black coffin		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient answer=Theme on coffin=Asset
3	lie	past	sphynx					tree rules
4	write	past · perfect	sphynx not said here				before property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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