Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 140
"Gilding will fade in damp weather, To endure, there is nothing like leather."
Who acts: Gilding, nothing · What happens: fade, endure, be · To what, where: damp weather
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilding, nothing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fade | punct |
| 2 | Gilding | gilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fade | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fade | aux |
| 4 | fade | fade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 weather | case |
| 6 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 weather | amod |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fade | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 endure | punct |
| 9 | To | to | PART | _ | 10 endure | mark |
| 10 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fade | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 endure | conj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 is | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 leather | case |
| 16 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fade | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade in a quote | future | Gilding | damp weather | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | endure in a quote | to-infinitive | Gilding not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | 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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