Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 10

She tried to believe that man was but dust, and that with his life all existence ended.

Who acts: mother, man, existence · What happens: try, believe, be, end · To what, where: dust, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, man, existence), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 believe	mark
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dust	mark
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dust	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dust	cop
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 dust	cc
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 that	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 dust	nmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 life	nmod:poss
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	nmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 existence	det
17	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ended	nsubj
18	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 life	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	mother			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	believe not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	man	dust	that nmod	tree rules
4	end	past	all existence	man's life not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality

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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