Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 18
These were the last words Jurgen uttered in this world, for the thread that bound his immortal soul was severed, and nothing but the dead body lay in the dark church, while the storm raged outside, covering it with loose sand.
Who acts: These, Jurgen, thread, nothing · What happens: be, utter, bind, sever, lie, rage · To what, where: last words, world, immortal soul, storm, dark church, soul
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Jurgen, thread, nothing), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 uttered | nsubj |
| 7 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uttered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thread | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 thread | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thread | det |
| 14 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 uttered | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bound | nsubj |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thread | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 18 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 soul | amod |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 severed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 severed | aux:pass |
| 21 | severed | sever | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bound | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lay | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lay | cc |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 body | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 body | amod |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | conj |
| 29 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uttered | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 church | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 church | det |
| 32 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 church | amod |
| 33 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lay | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 storm | punct |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 storm | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 storm | det |
| 37 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lay | obl |
| 38 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 storm | acl |
| 39 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 38 raged | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 covering | punct |
| 41 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 lay | advcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 covering | obj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 sand | case |
| 44 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 sand | amod |
| 45 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 covering | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | These | the last words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Jurgen | the last words not said here | this world | for the thread | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||
| 3 | bind | past | the thread | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sever | past · passive | Jurgen's immortal soul | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lie | past | nothing | the storm | the dark church | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in church=Location | |||
| 6 | rage | participle | the storm not said here | outside property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cover | gerund | nothing not said here | soul | with loose sand | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with sand=Theme |
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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