Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 57

Death is an electric shock which we receive in our hearts, and on the wings of electricity the liberated soul flies away swiftly, the light from the sun travels to our earth ninety-five millions of miles in eight minutes and a few seconds; but on the wings of electricity, the mind requires only a second to accomplish the same distance.

Who acts: Death, we, liberated soul, light, mind · What happens: be, receive, liberate, fly away, travel, require · To what, where: electric shock, wings, hearts, earth, same distance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Death, we, liberated soul, light), 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	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shock	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shock	det
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shock	amod
5	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 receive	obj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 receive	nsubj
8	receive	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shock	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hearts	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hearts	nmod:poss
11	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 receive	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flies	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flies	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 wings	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wings	det
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flies	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 electricity	case
18	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wings	nmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soul	det
20	liberated	liberate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 soul	amod
21	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flies	nsubj
22	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shock	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 flies	advmod
24	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	22 flies	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 light	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 light	det
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 travels	nsubj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 sun	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 light	nmod
31	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shock	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 earth	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 earth	nmod:poss
34	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 travels	obl
35	ninety	ninety	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 five	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ninety	punct
37	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 millions	nummod
38	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 earth	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 miles	case
40	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 millions	nmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 minutes	case
42	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 minutes	nummod
43	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 miles	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 seconds	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 seconds	det
46	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 seconds	amod
47	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 minutes	conj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 wings	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 wings	cc
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 wings	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wings	det
52	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shock	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 electricity	case
54	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 wings	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 requires	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 mind	det
57	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 requires	nsubj
58	requires	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shock	conj
59	only	only	ADV	_	61 second	advmod
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 second	det
61	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 requires	obj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 accomplish	mark
63	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 requires	advcl
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 distance	det
65	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 distance	amod
66	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 accomplish	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Death	a electric shock	the wings of electricity			tree rules
2	receive	present	we	a electric shock	our hearts			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme in heart=Location
3	liberate	participle						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fly away	present	the liberated soul		the wings of electricity		away, swiftly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wing=Location
5	travel	present	the light from the sun		our earth five millions of miles in eight minutes and a few seconds			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination
6	require	present	the mind			second		vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	accomplish	to-infinitive	the mind not said here	the same distance				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=Eventuality

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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