Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 44
Everything will be forgotten!" still echoed through the room, and in the same moment an invisible spirit whispered to the heart of the boy, "Preserve carefully the seed that has been entrusted to thee, that it may grow and thrive.
Who acts: seed · What happens: forget, echo, whisper, preserve, entrust, grow · To what, where: Everything, room, invisible spirit, heart, seed, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seed), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 echoed | advmod |
| 8 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | advcl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 echoed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moment | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moment | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgotten | obl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spirit | det |
| 19 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spirit | amod |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | appos |
| 21 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 spirit | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 heart | det |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whispered | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 boy | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heart | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Preserve | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Preserve | punct |
| 30 | Preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 spirit | parataxis |
| 31 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 30 Preserve | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 seed | det |
| 33 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Preserve | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 entrusted | obj |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 entrusted | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 37 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 seed | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 thee | case |
| 39 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 entrusted | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 grow | punct |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 grow | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 grow | nsubj |
| 43 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 grow | aux |
| 44 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 entrusted | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 thrive | cc |
| 46 | thrive | thrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 grow | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | future · passive | Everything | moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | echo in a quote | past | the room | still | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through room=Location | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | participle | a invisible spirit not said here | the heart of the boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to heart=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | preserve | infinitive | the seed | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | entrust | present · perfect · passive | the seed | thee | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: that=Theme to thou=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | grow | may | seed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | thrive | infinitive | seed not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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