Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 16
It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for ever, that we shall be as gods!
Who acts: It, we · What happens: seem, believe, live, be · To what, where: great pride · 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 (It, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pride | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pride | amod |
| 5 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 believe | mark |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pride | acl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 live | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 live | aux |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gods | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 gods | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gods | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 gods | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gods | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seems | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | a great pride | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pride=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | a great pride not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | live | shall | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | as gods | 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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