Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 116

“O mighty Death! thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts?

Who acts: mighty Death, Thou, thy, my · What happens: teach, lead, break, silence, think · To what, where: nought, brink, ladder

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 (mighty Death, Thou, thy, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 Death	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 mighty	discourse
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Death	amod
4	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teaches	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Death	punct
6	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	7 silence	nmod:poss
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teaches	nsubj
8	teaches	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 teaches	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leadest	punct
11	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	12 leadest	nsubj
12	leadest	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teaches	conj
13	only	only	ADV	_	19 brink	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	19 brink	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grave	det
16	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brink	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 grave	case
19	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leadest	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 broken	punct
21	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 broken	aux:pass
22	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 teaches	conj
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 ladder	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ladder	det
25	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broken	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 thoughts	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 thoughts	nmod:poss
28	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ladder	nmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 teaches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	present	mighty Death	nought	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nought=Recipient
2	lead in a quote	present	Thou	the near grave's brink	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brink=Theme
3	break in a quote	present · passive	mighty Death not said here	the ladder of my thoughts	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
4	silence in a quote		thy		nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent
5	think in a quote		my		nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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