Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 158
"But it is the way of the world," replied the shadow, "and always will be."
Who acts: journey, shadow · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (journey, shadow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 way | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 way | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shadow | det |
| 14 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 be | cc |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 be | advmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | journey | the way | of the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the shadow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | future | the shadow not said here | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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