Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 46
Through thee, my child, shall the obliterated inscription on the old, weather-beaten grave-stone go forth to future generations in clear, golden characters.
Who acts: child · What happens: obliterate, beat, go · To what, where: thee
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 (child), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 thee | case |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 go | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inscription | punct |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 inscription | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inscription | det |
| 9 | obliterated | obliterate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 inscription | amod |
| 10 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 child | appos |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 old | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 old | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 inscription | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stone | punct |
| 15 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beaten | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 weather | punct |
| 17 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stone | amod |
| 18 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stone | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 grave | punct |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inscription | conj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 generations | case |
| 24 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 generations | amod |
| 25 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 go | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 characters | case |
| 27 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 characters | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 clear | punct |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 characters | amod |
| 30 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 generations | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obliterate | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | my child | thee | to future generations in clear golden characters | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through thou=Initial_Location to generation=Destination |
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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