Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 27
The dumb creature might demand a future life also, and declare the law unjust that excludes it from the advantages of the higher creation."
Who acts: dumb creature, law · What happens: demand, declare, exclude · To what, where: future life, law, life, advantages
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 (dumb creature, law), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 2 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creature | amod |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demand | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 demand | aux |
| 5 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 life | det |
| 7 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 demand | obj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 demand | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declare | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 declare | cc |
| 12 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 demand | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 law | det |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 declare | obj |
| 15 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 law | amod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 excludes | nsubj |
| 17 | excludes | exclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 law | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 excludes | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 advantages | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 advantages | det |
| 21 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 excludes | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 creation | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 creation | det |
| 24 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 creation | amod |
| 25 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advantages | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 demand | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 demand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | might | the dumb creature | a future life | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | infinitive | the dumb creature not said here | the law | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | exclude | present | the law | life | the advantages of the higher creation | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from advantage=Eventuality |
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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