Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 142
Learn to endure being forgotten while yet thou livest.
Who acts: you · What happens: learn, endure, forget
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 endure | mark |
| 3 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Learn | xcomp |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 endure | xcomp |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 livest | mark |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 livest | advmod |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 livest | nsubj |
| 9 | livest | live | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 forgotten | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | endure | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | forget | gerund · passive | you not said here | 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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