Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 13
Yet they say that fulness of joy for ever and ever can only be found in the future life.
Who acts: gift · What happens: say, find · To what, where: fulness, future life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gift), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 say | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 5 | fulness | fulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fulness | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 ever | case |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 fulness | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ever | cc |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 ever | conj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 say | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 life | det |
| 18 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | gift | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | can · passive | fulness of joy | the future life | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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