Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 13
But your griefs shall not last long.
Who acts: griefs · What happens: not last
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griefs), 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 | _ | 6 last | cc |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 griefs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | griefs | grief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 last | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 last | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 last | advmod |
| 6 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 last | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not last | shall | your griefs | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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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