Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 54
The great poet Goethe concludes his Faust with the words, "may be continued;" so might our wanderings in the churchyard be continued.
Who acts: great poet, our · What happens: conclude, continue, wander · To what, where: Faust, wanderings, churchyard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great poet, our), 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 poet | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poet | amod |
| 3 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concludes | nsubj |
| 4 | Goethe | Goethe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 poet | appos |
| 5 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Faust | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Faust | faust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concludes | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 concludes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 continued | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 continued | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 continued | aux:pass |
| 15 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concludes | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 continued | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 continued | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 continued | advmod |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 continued | aux |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 churchyard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 churchyard | det |
| 24 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wanderings | nmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 continued | aux:pass |
| 26 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 concludes | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concludes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | present | the great poet | poet's Faust | with the words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | may · passive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | continue | might · passive | our wanderings in the churchyard | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wander | our | the churchyard | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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