Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 230
Thy whole world is incomprehensible--a wonder-work of power, of glory and of love."
Who acts: whole world, power · What happens: be, work
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 (whole world, power), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 world | nmod:poss |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 world | amod |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 incomprehensible | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 incomprehensible | cop |
| 5 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 8 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonder | punct |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 incomprehensible | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glory | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 glory | case |
| 15 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 love | cc |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 incomprehensible | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 incomprehensible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Thy whole world | incomprehensible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | work | power | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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