Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 29
Heaven is as boundless as the love of our Creator; the dumb animal is also His creature, and I firmly believe that no life will be lost, but each will receive as much happiness as he can enjoy, which will be sufficient for him."
Who acts: Heaven, dumb animal, I, each, animal · What happens: be, believe, lose, receive, enjoy, love · To what, where: creature, life, much happiness, Creator · 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 (Heaven, dumb animal, I, each), 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 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boundless | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boundless | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 boundless | advmod |
| 4 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 love | det |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boundless | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Creator | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Creator | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 love | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 creature | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 animal | det |
| 13 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animal | amod |
| 14 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 creature | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 creature | cop |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 creature | advmod |
| 17 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 creature | nmod:poss |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boundless | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 believe | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 believe | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 believe | nsubj |
| 22 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 23 believe | advmod |
| 23 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 creature | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 lost | mark |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 life | det |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lost | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lost | aux:pass |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 believe | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 receive | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 receive | cc |
| 32 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 receive | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 receive | aux |
| 34 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 boundless | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 much | advmod |
| 36 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 happiness | amod |
| 37 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 receive | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 enjoy | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 enjoy | nsubj |
| 40 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 enjoy | aux |
| 41 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 receive | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sufficient | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 sufficient | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 sufficient | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 sufficient | cop |
| 46 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 enjoy | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sufficient | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boundless | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 boundless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Heaven | as the love of our Creator; boundless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the dumb animal | animal's creature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | present | I | firmly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lose | future · passive | no life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | receive | future | each | much happiness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enjoy | can | animal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | future | for animal; sufficient property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | love | our Creator | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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