Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 31
Death is the most certain messenger, after all, in spite of his various occupations.
Who acts: Death, affair · What happens: be, spite, occupy · To what, where: certain messenger, various occupations
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: who acts (Death, affair), 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 messenger | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 messenger | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 messenger | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 certain | advmod |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 messenger | amod |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 messenger | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 messenger | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spite | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spite | case |
| 12 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 messenger | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 occupations | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 occupations | nmod:poss |
| 15 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 occupations | amod |
| 16 | occupations | occupation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spite | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 messenger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Death | the certain messenger and spite of affair's various occupations | after all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spite | affair's various occupations | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | occupy | affair | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=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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