Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 123

This night it is a horrible pit to devour up lives, and to-morrow, perhaps, it may be a glassy mirror--even as in the old time that we have buried.

Who acts: night, Sea · What happens: be, devour up, bury · To what, where: horrible pit, lives, glassy mirror, old time

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Sea), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pit	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
6	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pit	amod
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 devour	mark
9	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pit	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 devour	compound:prt
11	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 devour	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 morrow	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 morrow	cc
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 morrow	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pit	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mirror	punct
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 mirror	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 perhaps	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mirror	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 mirror	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 mirror	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mirror	det
24	glassy	glassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mirror	amod
25	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pit	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	32 time	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 time	case
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mirror	obl:unmarked
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 buried	nsubj:pass
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 buried	nsubj:pass
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 buried	aux
36	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 time	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this night	a horrible pit and morrow and a glassy mirror			tree rules
2	devour up	to-infinitive		lives			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
3	is a	may	Sea	a glassy mirror	time	perhaps property	tree rules
4	bury	present · perfect · passive		the old time			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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