Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 52
He is but a poor fool, and not doomed to be tortured eternally by fire!"
Who acts: footman, fire · What happens: be, not doom, torture · To what, where: poor fool
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footman, fire), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fool | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fool | cop |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fool | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fool | amod |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 doomed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 doomed | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 doomed | advmod |
| 10 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fool | amod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tortured | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tortured | aux:pass |
| 13 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 doomed | xcomp |
| 14 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 13 tortured | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tortured | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 doomed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | footman | a poor fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | torture | to-infinitive · passive | fire | eternally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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