Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 49
The beautiful and the good are never forgotten, they live always in story or in song."
Who acts: children · What happens: not forget, live · To what, where: story
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 (children), 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 beautiful | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 good | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 good | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beautiful | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 forgotten | advmod |
| 8 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgotten | advcl |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 live | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 story | case |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 song | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 song | case |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 story | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | live | present | children = child | story or song | always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location |
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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