Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 163
That jewel was the continual striving and desire to go upward--ever upward.
Who acts: jewel · What happens: be, go · To what, where: continual striving
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewel), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 jewel | det |
| 2 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 striving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 striving | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 striving | det |
| 5 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 striving | amod |
| 6 | striving | striving | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 desire | cc |
| 8 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 striving | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desire | acl |
| 11 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 upward | punct |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 upward | advmod |
| 14 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 striving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that jewel | the continual striving and desire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | that jewel not said here | upward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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