Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 182
Yes, this world was a dream, and the dream lasts for hours, and may return for hours; but convent life is a life of years--long years, and many years.
Who acts: world, dream, convent life · What happens: be, last, return · To what, where: dream, life
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 (world, dream, convent life), 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 | 7 dream | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lasts | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lasts | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dream | det |
| 11 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lasts | nsubj |
| 12 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dream | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lasts | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 return | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 return | cc |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 return | aux |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lasts | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 hours | case |
| 20 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 return | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 life | cc |
| 23 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | compound |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 life | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 life | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dream | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 years | case |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 life | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 years | punct |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 years | amod |
| 32 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 life | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 years | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 years | cc |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 years | amod |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dream | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this world | a dream but a life | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | last | present | the dream | hour | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | may | the dream not said here | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | convent life | a life | year | tree rules |
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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