Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 6
Each only appears for a few moments, but each represents a whole life, sometimes a whole age, with its conflicts and victories.
Who acts: Each, age · What happens: appear, represent, conflict · To what, where: whole life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, age), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 appears | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 appears | advmod |
| 3 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 moments | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 moments | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moments | amod |
| 7 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 appears | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 represents | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 represents | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 represents | nsubj |
| 11 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represents | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 age | punct |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 age | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 age | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 age | amod |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 conflicts | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 conflicts | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 conflicts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | conflicts | conflict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 represents | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 victories | cc |
| 25 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 conflicts | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | Each | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | each | a whole life and a whole age | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conflict | age | nom conflict «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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