Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 15
The soul lives and acts, while the body is at rest.
Who acts: soul, body · What happens: live, act, be · To what, where: rest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, body), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soul | det |
| 2 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 acts | cc |
| 5 | acts | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rest | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 rest | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rest | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 rest | case |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acts | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the soul | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | act | present | the soul not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the body | rest | tree rules |
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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