Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 27
"To eternal life," says the comforting voice of religion.
Who acts: comforting voice · What happens: say · To what, where: eternal life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (comforting voice), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 3 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 life | amod |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 life | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | comforting | comforting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 religion | case |
| 12 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the comforting voice of religion | eternal life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient |
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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