Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 47
The black bow signifies mourning, the girl's face points to the same in a still higher degree; it is preserved in the heart and will never be forgotten.
Who acts: black bow, face · What happens: signify, point, preserve, not forget · To what, where: mourning, same, higher degree, face, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black bow, face), 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 | 3 bow | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bow | amod |
| 3 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signifies | nsubj |
| 4 | signifies | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signifies | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 points | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 girl | case |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 points | nsubj |
| 11 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 signifies | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 same | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 points | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 degree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 degree | det |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 higher | advmod |
| 18 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 degree | amod |
| 19 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 points | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 preserved | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 preserved | aux:pass |
| 23 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 signifies | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 heart | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heart | det |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 preserved | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 forgotten | cc |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 forgotten | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 forgotten | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 31 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 preserved | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | present | the black bow | mourning | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mourning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point | present | the girl's face | the same | a higher degree | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to same=Recipient | |||
| 3 | preserve | present · passive | face | the heart | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not forget | future · passive | 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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