Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 57
"Alas! how soon all that is good and beautiful passes away," sighed the elf.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, pass away, sigh · To what, where: elf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | _ | 12 passes | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 9 good | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 soon | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 good | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 that | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 good | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 good | cop |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passes | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beautiful | cc |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 good | conj |
| 12 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 passes | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sighed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sighed | punct |
| 16 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 passes | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elf | det |
| 18 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sighed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 passes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | good, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pass away in a quote | present | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | sigh | past | the elf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elf=Topic |
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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