Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 173

They told him that art was a sorcerer, betraying us to vanity and to earthly lusts; that we are false to ourselves, unfaithful to our friends, unfaithful towards Heaven; and that the serpent was always repeating within us, "Eat, and thou shalt become as God."

Who acts: vanity, art, we, serpent, thou · What happens: tell, be, betray, repeat, eat, become · To what, where: soil, sorcerer, us, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vanity, art, we, serpent), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 sorcerer	mark
5	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sorcerer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sorcerer	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sorcerer	det
8	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 betraying	punct
10	betraying	betray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 betraying	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 vanity	case
13	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 betraying	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lusts	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 lusts	case
16	earthly	earthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lusts	amod
17	lusts	lust	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vanity	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 false	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 false	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 false	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 false	cop
22	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 ourselves	case
24	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 false	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 unfaithful	punct
26	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 false	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 friends	case
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 friends	nmod:poss
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 unfaithful	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unfaithful	punct
31	unfaithful	unfaithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 friends	amod
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 Heaven	case
33	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 unfaithful	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 repeating	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 repeating	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 repeating	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 serpent	det
38	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 repeating	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 repeating	aux
40	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 repeating	advmod
41	repeating	repeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
42	within	within	ADP	_	43 us	case
43	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 repeating	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Eat	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 Eat	punct
46	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 repeating	parataxis
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 become	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 become	cc
49	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 become	nsubj
50	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	51 become	aux
51	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
52	as	as	ADP	_	53 God	case
53	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 become	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 become	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	vanity		soil		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	past	art	a sorcerer			tree rules
3	betray	gerund	vanity not said here	us		to vanity and earthly lusts	tree rules
4	is	present	we		ourselves	false property	tree rules
5	be		we not said here			to our friends	tree rules
6	repeat	past · progressive	the serpent			within us; always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	eat in a quote	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	become in a quote	shall	thou			as God	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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