Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 32

Yes, Death is the omnibus conductor, and he is the passport writer, and he countersigns our service-book, and he is director of the savings bank of life.

Who acts: Death · What happens: be, countersign · To what, where: omnibus conductor, passport writer, service book, director

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), 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	7 conductor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 conductor	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conductor	det
6	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	compound
7	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 writer	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 writer	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 writer	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 writer	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 writer	det
13	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 writer	compound
14	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 countersigns	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 countersigns	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 countersigns	nsubj
18	countersigns	countersign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 writer	conj
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 book	nmod:poss
20	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 book	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 service	punct
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 countersigns	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 director	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 director	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 director	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 director	cop
27	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 countersigns	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 bank	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bank	det
30	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 bank	compound
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 director	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 life	case
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bank	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 conductor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Death	the omnibus conductor		tree rules
2	is a	present	death	the passport writer		tree rules
3	countersign	present	death	our service book		tree rules
4	is a	present	death	director	of the savings bank of life	tree rules

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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