Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 257
What is earthly will pass away and be forgotten, and the Star in the vast firmament knows it.
Who acts: Star · What happens: be, pass away, forget, know · To what, where: firmament
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 (Star), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 pass | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 earthly | cop |
| 3 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pass | csubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgotten | cc |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 9 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pass | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knows | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knows | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Star | det |
| 13 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 firmament | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 firmament | det |
| 16 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 firmament | amod |
| 17 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Star | nmod |
| 18 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knows | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | earthly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass away | future | away property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | the Star in the vast firmament | firmament | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=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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