Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 9

He spoke very excitedly, saying that their evil propensities would not be destroyed, nor would the fire be extinguished, and they should never find rest.

Who acts: God, fire, propensities · What happens: speak, say, not destroy, be, not find · To what, where: evil propensities, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (God, fire, propensities), 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	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 excitedly	advmod
4	excitedly	excitedly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 destroyed	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 propensities	nmod:poss
9	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 propensities	amod
10	propensities	propensity	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 destroyed	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 destroyed	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 destroyed	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 destroyed	aux:pass
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 saying	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 extinguished	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 extinguished	cc
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 extinguished	aux
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 extinguished	nsubj
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 extinguished	cop
21	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 spoke	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 find	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 find	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 find	advmod
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 extinguished	parataxis
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	God		excitedly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	God not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not destroy	would · passive		men's evil propensities		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	is	would	the fire		extinguished property	tree rules
5	not find	should	propensities = propensity	rest		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic

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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