Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 20

But the ruins stood unchanged, as they will stand when centuries shall have gone by, and when none shall know of the momentary applause and of the triumph of the fair songstress; when all will be forgotten and gone, and even for me this hour will be but a dream of the past."

Who acts: ruins, centuries, none, fair songstress · What happens: stand, go by, know, forget, go, be · To what, where: all, dream

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ruins, centuries, none, fair songstress), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ruins	det
3	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stand	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stand	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stand	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stand	aux
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	parataxis
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
12	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gone	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 gone	aux
15	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stand	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	15 gone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 know	advmod
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 know	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stand	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 applause	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 applause	det
25	momentary	momentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 applause	amod
26	applause	applause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 know	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 triumph	cc
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 triumph	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 triumph	det
30	triumph	triumph	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 applause	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 songstress	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 songstress	det
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 songstress	amod
34	songstress	songstress	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 triumph	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 forgotten	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 forgotten	advmod
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 forgotten	nsubj:pass
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 forgotten	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 forgotten	aux:pass
40	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stood	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 gone	cc
42	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 forgotten	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 me	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 me	cc
45	even	even	ADV	_	47 me	advmod
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stood	obl
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 hour	det
49	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl:unmarked
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 dream	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 dream	cop
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 dream	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 dream	det
54	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 past	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 past	det
57	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 dream	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
59	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the ruins		hour	for me; unchanged property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute
2	stand	future	ruins = ruin				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go by	shall · perfect	centuries				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	shall	none			of the momentary applause and the triumph of the fair songstress	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of applause=Stimulus
5	forget	future · passive		all			tree rules
6	go	participle					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	future		a dream		of the past	tree rules
8	triumph		the fair songstress				nom triumph «event 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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