Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 42
"'In the dust lies genius and glory, But ev'ry-day talent will pay.
Who acts: genius, day talent · What happens: lie, pay · To what, where: dust
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, day talent), 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 | _ | 6 lies | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lies | punct |
| 3 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 dust | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dust | det |
| 5 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | obl |
| 6 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glory | cc |
| 9 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 genius | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pay | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 pay | cc |
| 12 | ev'ry | ev'ry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ev'ry | punct |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talent | compound |
| 15 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pay | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pay | aux |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lies | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | genius and glory | the dust | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dust=Location | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | future | day talent | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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