Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 20
"Faith realises it, and the priests tell us so," replied her husband; "but amid all my happiness I feel that it is arrogant to demand a continuation of it--another life after this.
Who acts: Faith, priests, husband, young wife, it · What happens: realise, tell, reply, feel, be, demand · To what, where: existence, us, happiness, continuation · 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 (Faith, priests, husband, young wife), 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 | _ | 3 realises | punct |
| 2 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 realises | nsubj |
| 3 | realises | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 realises | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priests | det |
| 8 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 realises | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 tell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 amid | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 amid | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 amid | cc |
| 20 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 realises | obl |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 happiness | det:predet |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 amid | appos |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 feel | nsubj |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 happiness | acl:relcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 arrogant | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 arrogant | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 arrogant | cop |
| 29 | arrogant | arrogant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feel | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 demand | mark |
| 31 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 arrogant | csubj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 continuation | det |
| 33 | continuation | continuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 demand | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 continuation | nmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 life | punct |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 life | det |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 continuation | conj |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 40 this | case |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 continuation | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 realises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise in a quote | present | Faith | existence | amid obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | the priests | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Faith's husband | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | present | the young wife = wife | my happiness not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | it | arrogant property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | demand speech: request in a quote | to-infinitive | a continuation of existence and another life | after this | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme continuation=Precondition | ||||
| 7 | continue in a quote | existence | after this | nom continuation «act transitive»: of=patient after=obl |
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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