Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 137
The ephemeral fly knows not repose, for her existence is flight.
Who acts: ephemeral fly, existence, fly · What happens: not know, be, exist · To what, where: repose, flight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ephemeral fly, existence, fly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1744): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fly | det |
| 2 | ephemeral | ephemeral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | amod |
| 3 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 knows | advmod |
| 6 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flight | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 flight | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 existence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flight | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 flight | cop |
| 12 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present | the ephemeral fly | repose | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer repose=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | fly's existence | flight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exist | fly | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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