Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 20
In that glass is the pause drawn by reason, and one may never go beyond that sign.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, draw, not go · To what, where: pause, glass, sign
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 glass | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 glass | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pause | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pause | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pause | det |
| 6 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 pause | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 reason | case |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drawn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 go | advmod |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pause | parataxis |
| 16 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 18 sign | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sign | det |
| 18 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the pause | that glass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | the pause not said here | by reason | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not go | may | one | that sign | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond sign=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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