Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 60

What my friends call life and enjoyment is a passing shadow; it is like bubbles among seething dregs, not the pure heavenly wine that consecrates us to life."

Who acts: friends, enjoyment, life, pure heavenly wine · What happens: call, pass, be, seethe, consecrate · To what, where: life, passing shadow, us · 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 (friends, enjoyment, life, pure heavenly wine), 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	4 call	obj
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	nsubj
4	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shadow	cc
7	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shadow	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shadow	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shadow	det
10	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 shadow	amod
11	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 life	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 bubbles	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bubbles	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bubbles	cop
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 bubbles	case
16	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 dregs	case
18	seething	seethe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 dregs	amod
19	dregs	dreg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bubbles	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wine	punct
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 wine	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wine	det
23	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wine	amod
24	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wine	amod
25	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bubbles	conj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 consecrates	nsubj
27	consecrates	consecrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 wine	acl:relcl
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 consecrates	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 life	case
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 consecrates	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present	my friends	life and a passing shadow		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme life=Result
2	pass	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	enjoyment	a passing shadow		tree rules
4	is	present	life		like bubbles and the pure heavenly wine; among seething dregs	tree rules
5	seethe	gerund				vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
6	consecrate	present	the pure heavenly wine	us	to life	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Result

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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