Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 213
Nothing within, nothing without--this life squandered and cast away!"
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: squander, cast away
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 squandered | nsubj |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 squandered | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 life | det |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squandered | nsubj |
| 9 | squandered | squander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cast | cc |
| 11 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 squandered | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 cast | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 squandered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 squandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squander | past | Nothing | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cast away | past | Nothing not said here | away property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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