Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 29
"What is near, what is far, when thou art lifted by the mighty genius of mind?"
Who acts: mighty genius · What happens: be, lift · To what, where: thou
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty genius), 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 near | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 near | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 near | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 far | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 far | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 far | cop |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 near | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifted | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 lifted | advmod |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | aux:pass |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 near | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 genius | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 genius | det |
| 16 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 genius | amod |
| 17 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 genius | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 near | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 near | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | near property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lift in a quote | present · passive | the mighty genius of mind | thou | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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