Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 56
"Farewell, warrior! ever brave, Drifting onward to thy grave."
What happens: drift · To what, where: grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 warrior | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 4 warrior | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brave | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 warrior | punct |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 brave | advmod |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Drifting | punct |
| 9 | Drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 brave | advcl |
| 10 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 9 Drifting | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 grave | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 grave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Drifting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brave | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift in a quote | gerund | thy grave | onward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to grave=Destination |
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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