Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Windmill, sentence 27
I must be pulled down that I may be built up again; I shall cease, but yet shall live on.
Who acts: I · What happens: pull down, build up, cease, live on · To what, where: I, that
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Windmill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pulled | aux:pass |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 built | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pulled | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 built | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 built | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cease | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cease | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cease | aux |
| 16 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pulled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 live | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 live | cc |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 live | advmod |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 live | aux |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pulled | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 live | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | must · passive | I | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | build up | may · passive | that | again | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cease | shall | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | live on | shall | yet | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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