Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 21
The leaf is kept, but the friendship does no longer exist.
Who acts: friendship · What happens: keep, do, exist · To what, where: leaf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friendship), 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 | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 does | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 friendship | det |
| 8 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 exist | advmod |
| 12 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 does | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present · passive | the leaf | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the friendship | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | exist | present | the friendship not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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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