Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 24
If there were no future life, everything here would be too unequally divided, and God would not be the personification of justice."
Who acts: future life, God · What happens: be, divide, not be · To what, where: everything, personification
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 (future life, God), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 everything | advcl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 life | det |
| 5 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 were | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 everything | advmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 divided | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 divided | aux:pass |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 unequally | advmod |
| 13 | unequally | unequally | ADV | _ | 14 divided | advmod |
| 14 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 personification | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 personification | cc |
| 17 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 personification | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 personification | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 personification | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 personification | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 personification | det |
| 22 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 divided | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 justice | case |
| 24 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 personification | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 divided | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no future life | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide | would · passive | everything | unequally property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | would | God | the personification | of justice | 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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