Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 206
"Each mortal thinks of himself alone, Is a truth, alas, too clearly known;"
Who acts: mortal · What happens: think, be, know · To what, where: truth
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 (mortal), 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 | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
| 2 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 mortal | det |
| 3 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thinks | obl |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 truth | punct |
| 9 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 truth | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alas | punct |
| 13 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 truth | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 known | punct |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 clearly | advmod |
| 16 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 17 known | advmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 truth | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | each mortal | of stanza; alone property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a truth and alas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | participle | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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