Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 202
"Life is a shadow that flits away In a night of darkness and woe."
Who acts: Life, shadow · What happens: be, flit away · To what, where: shadow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, shadow), 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 | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
| 2 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shadow | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shadow | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shadow | det |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 flits | nsubj |
| 7 | flits | flit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 flits | advmod |
| 9 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flits | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 darkness | case |
| 13 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 woe | cc |
| 15 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 darkness | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shadow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Life | a shadow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flit away in a quote | present | a shadow | night | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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