Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 104
By this there will be always 'something' to make me remembered, and is not that worth living for?"
Who acts: this, me · What happens: be, make, remember, not be, live · To what, where: something, me
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, me), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 something | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 be | expl |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 something | advmod |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 something | punct |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 something | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 something | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 make | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worth | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worth | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worth | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 worth | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | ADV | _ | 19 worth | advmod |
| 19 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 something | parataxis |
| 20 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 worth | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 living | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 worth | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | this | something | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remember | participle | me not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | that, worth property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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