Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 85

But the little invisible beings said, "The song is never ended; the most beautiful is yet to come."

Who acts: little invisible beings, beautiful · What happens: say, not end, be · To what, where: song · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little invisible beings, beautiful), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beings	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beings	amod
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beings	amod
5	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ended	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 ended	punct
9	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ended	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ended	aux:pass
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 ended	advmod
13	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beautiful	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 beautiful	advmod
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 come	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 come	cop
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 come	mark
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the little invisible beings				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not end in a quote	present · passive		the song			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	the beautiful		yet	come property	tree rules

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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