Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 76
"You cannot prevail against me," said Death.
Who acts: You, Death · What happens: not prevail, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Death), 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 | _ | 5 prevail | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 prevail | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 prevail | advmod |
| 5 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 prevail | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevail | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevail | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not prevail in a quote | can | You | against Death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against i=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Death | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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