Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 72
The statue represented in living, breathing reality, the form of him who was born in poverty, the boy from Marbach, the pupil of the military school, the fugitive who struggled against poverty and oppression, from the outer world; Germany's great and immortal poet, who sung of Switzerland's deliverer, William Tell, and of the heaven-inspired Maid of Orleans.
Who acts: statue, fugitive, great poet · What happens: represent, breathe, bear, struggle, sing, tell · To what, where: statue, reality, form, poverty, outer world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (statue, fugitive, great poet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 statue | det |
| 2 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 Tell | nsubj |
| 3 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 statue | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 living | case |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 represented | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 breathing | punct |
| 7 | breathing | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 statue | acl |
| 8 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breathing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 form | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reality | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 form | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 form | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 poverty | case |
| 18 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boy | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poverty | appos |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Marbach | case |
| 23 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 boy | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pupil | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pupil | det |
| 26 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poverty | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 school | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 school | det |
| 29 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 school | amod |
| 30 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pupil | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fugitive | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fugitive | det |
| 33 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poverty | conj |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 struggled | nsubj |
| 35 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fugitive | acl:relcl |
| 36 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 poverty | case |
| 37 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 struggled | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 oppression | cc |
| 39 | oppression | oppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 poverty | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 world | punct |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 world | det |
| 43 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 world | amod |
| 44 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 struggled | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 poet | punct |
| 46 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 poet | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 Germany | case |
| 48 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 poet | amod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 immortal | cc |
| 50 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 great | conj |
| 51 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 statue | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 sung | punct |
| 53 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 sung | nsubj |
| 54 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 poet | acl:relcl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 deliverer | case |
| 56 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 57 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 56 Switzerland | case |
| 58 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 sung | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 William | punct |
| 60 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 deliverer | appos |
| 61 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 Maid | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 69 Maid | cc |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 Maid | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 Maid | det |
| 66 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 inspired | compound |
| 67 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 66 heaven | punct |
| 68 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 69 Maid | amod |
| 69 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 Tell | ccomp |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 Orleans | case |
| 71 | Orleans | Orleans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 Maid | nmod |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 61 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | participle | the statue and Germany's great poet not said here | in living | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in living=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | the statue and Germany's great poet not said here | reality | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reality=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | the form of statue | poverty and the pupil of the military school and the fugitive | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | struggle | past | the fugitive | the outer world | against poverty and oppression | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | past | Germany's great poet | of Switzerland's deliverer | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the statue and Germany's great poet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | inspire | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | form | statue | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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