Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 58
"Now I know what life is," cried the artist rejoicingly; "it is Love!
Who acts: artist, life · What happens: know, be, cry · To what, where: Love · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (artist, life), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 cried | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 artist | det |
| 12 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | rejoicingly | rejoicingly | ADV | _ | 10 cried | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 Love | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Love | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Love | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Love | cop |
| 18 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | the artist = artist | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the artist | rejoicingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | life | Love | tree rules |
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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