Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 18
"Surely you do not doubt the existence of a future life?" exclaimed the young wife.
Who acts: you, young wife, future life · What happens: not doubt, exclaim, exist · To what, where: existence · 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 (you, young wife, future 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 | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 6 doubt | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 doubt | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doubt | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 doubt | advmod |
| 6 | doubt | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 existence | det |
| 8 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doubt | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 11 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 existence | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 doubt | punct |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exclaimed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not doubt in a quote | present · do-support | you | the existence of a future life | surely property | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Theme | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the young wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | exist in a quote | a future life | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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