Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 62
"Stern death, thy chilling silence waketh dread; Yet in thy darkest hour there may be light.
Who acts: chilling silence, thy · What happens: wake, be, silence · To what, where: dread
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 (chilling silence, thy), 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 | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 2 | Stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 death | amod |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waketh | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 silence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chilling | chilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silence | compound |
| 7 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waketh | nsubj |
| 8 | waketh | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waketh | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 light | punct |
| 11 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 light | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hour | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 hour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | darkest | dark | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 hour | amod |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | obl |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 be | expl |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 light | cop |
| 19 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 waketh | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waketh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake in a quote | present | thy chilling silence | dread | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | hour | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | silence in a quote | thy | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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