Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 33
Such a moment," he said, "makes it worth while to be born, to die, and to be annihilated!"
Who acts: husband · What happens: say, make, bear, die, annihilate · To what, where: cigarette · 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 (husband), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 moment | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 born | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 born | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 makes | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 die | mark |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 makes | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 annihilated | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 annihilated | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 annihilated | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 annihilated | aux:pass |
| 24 | annihilated | annihilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 annihilated | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 annihilated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | husband | moment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | present | cigarette | worth property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | annihilate | to-infinitive · passive | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
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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