Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 18

But the reason of this is, that you have never lived, you have never tasted life, you have never enjoyed it in great wholesome draughts, as it ought to be enjoyed.

Who acts: reason, you · What happens: not be, not taste, not enjoy, enjoy · To what, where: life, great wholesome draughts, reason

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 (reason, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj:outer
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 reason	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tasted	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tasted	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 tasted	advmod
17	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 lived	conj
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tasted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 enjoyed	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 enjoyed	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enjoyed	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 enjoyed	advmod
23	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tasted	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 enjoyed	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 draughts	case
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 draughts	amod
27	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 draughts	amod
28	draughts	draught	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 enjoyed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 enjoyed	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 enjoyed	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 enjoyed	nsubj:pass
32	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 enjoyed	aux
33	to	to	PART	_	35 enjoyed	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 enjoyed	aux:pass
35	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 enjoyed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present · perfect	the reason of this			live property	tree rules
2	not taste	present · perfect	you	life			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme life=Attribute
3	not enjoy	present · perfect	you	life	great wholesome draughts		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	enjoy	ought · passive		reason			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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