Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 52
And those were words of life for the dead clay and the heavy block of marble, and words of life likewise for the deeply-moved artist. "
What happens: be, move, word · To what, where: words, life
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 words | cc |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 words | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 clay | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clay | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clay | amod |
| 10 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 block | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 block | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 block | amod |
| 14 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clay | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 marble | case |
| 16 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 block | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 words | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 words | cc |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 words | nmod |
| 22 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 28 artist | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 artist | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 artist | det |
| 25 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 27 moved | advmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 deeply | punct |
| 27 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 artist | amod |
| 28 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 artist | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 artist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that words and words of life for the moved artist | of life for the dead clay and the heavy block of marble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | participle | deeply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | word | life for the moved artist | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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