Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 78
"Everything passes away," said the Dryad, "passes away like a cloud, and never comes back!"
Who acts: Everything, Dryad · What happens: pass away, say, not come back · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Everything, Dryad), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 passes | nsubj |
| 3 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passes | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 passes | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dryad | det |
| 9 | Dryad | Dryad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 passes | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dryad | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dryad | punct |
| 12 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 passes | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 cloud | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloud | det |
| 16 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passes | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 comes | cc |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 comes | advmod |
| 20 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 comes | advmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away in a quote | present | Everything | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | pass away in a quote | present | the Dryad | like a cloud; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not come back in a quote | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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