Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 222
Immortality--the Psyche in my breast--away with it!--it shall be buried like that Psyche, the best gleam of my life; never will it arise out of its grave!"
Who acts: Immortality, breast · What happens: bury, not arise · To what, where: breast, grave
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 (Immortality, breast), 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 | Immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 Psyche | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Psyche | det |
| 4 | Psyche | psyche | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Immortality | appos |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 breast | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breast | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Psyche | nmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 away | punct |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 Psyche | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 away | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Immortality | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 buried | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 buried | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 buried | aux:pass |
| 17 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Immortality | acl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 Psyche | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 Psyche | det |
| 20 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 buried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gleam | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gleam | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 gleam | amod |
| 24 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Psyche | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gleam | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 arise | punct |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 32 arise | advmod |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 arise | aux |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 arise | nsubj |
| 32 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Immortality | parataxis |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 grave | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 grave | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 grave | nmod:poss |
| 36 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 arise | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 arise | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 arise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | shall · passive | Immortality not said here | breast | like that Psyche | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not arise | future | breast | breast's grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out grave=Location |
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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