Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 26
Yes; what is the soul, and whither does it go?"
Who acts: soul · What happens: be, go · To what, where: soul
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 (soul), 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 | 6 soul | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 soul | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 soul | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soul | det |
| 6 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj:outer |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 9 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 go | advmod |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the soul | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present · do-support | the soul | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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