Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 258
What is heavenly will shine brightly through posterity; and when the ages of posterity are past, the Psyche--the soul--will still live on!
Who acts: ages, Psyche · What happens: be, shine, live on · To what, where: posterity
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 (ages, Psyche), 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 | 3 heavenly | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heavenly | cop |
| 3 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shine | aux |
| 5 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 heavenly | parataxis |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 5 shine | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 posterity | case |
| 8 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shine | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 live | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 live | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 past | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ages | det |
| 13 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 past | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 posterity | case |
| 15 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ages | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 past | cop |
| 17 | past | past | ADV | _ | 27 live | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Psyche | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Psyche | det |
| 20 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 live | nsubj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 soul | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soul | det |
| 23 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Psyche | appos |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Psyche | punct |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 live | aux |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 live | advmod |
| 27 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heavenly | parataxis |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 live | compound:prt |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavenly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | heavenly property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shine | future | posterity | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through posterity=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the ages of posterity | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live on | future | the Psyche | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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