Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 28
Yes, there was written long ago the good old maxim: 'Think on the great moving-day of death!'
What happens: write, think · To what, where: good old maxim
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 written | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 written | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | aux:pass |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ago | advmod |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 written | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maxim | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maxim | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maxim | amod |
| 11 | maxim | maxim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Think | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Think | punct |
| 14 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 written | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 18 | moving | moving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 moving | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Think | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Think | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | the good old maxim | there | ago property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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