Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 137
Life is beginning and swells like a cloud; nobody knows whither it is hastening."
Who acts: Life, nobody · What happens: begin, swell, know, hasten
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life, nobody), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beginning | aux |
| 3 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 swells | cc |
| 5 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beginning | conj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 cloud | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cloud | det |
| 8 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swells | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knows | punct |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beginning | parataxis |
| 12 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 hastening | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hastening | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hastening | aux |
| 15 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 knows | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present · progressive | Life | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | swell | present | Life not said here | like a cloud | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | know | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hasten | present · progressive | life | whither property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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