Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 60
Every corpse is a sphinx of immortality.
Who acts: corpse · What happens: be · To what, where: sphinx
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 corpse | det |
| 2 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sphinx | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sphinx | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sphinx | det |
| 5 | sphinx | sphinx | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 immortality | case |
| 7 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sphinx | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sphinx | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | every corpse | a sphinx | of immortality | 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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