Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 195
The leaves of the hymn-book are dust; and the rose, with all its recollections, has crumbled to dust also.
Who acts: leaves, dust, rose · What happens: be, crumble, dust, recollect · To what, where: dust, rose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaves, dust, rose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leaves | det |
| 2 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dust | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 book | det |
| 5 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 book | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hymn | punct |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dust | cop |
| 9 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 crumbled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crumbled | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rose | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crumbled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 recollections | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 recollections | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 recollections | det:predet |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 recollections | nmod:poss |
| 18 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rose | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 crumbled | aux |
| 21 | crumbled | crumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dust | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 dust | mark |
| 23 | dust | dust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 crumbled | xcomp |
| 24 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 dust | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the leaves of the hymn book | dust | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crumble | present · perfect · passive | dust not said here | the rose and rose's recollections | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dust | to-infinitive | dust not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | recollect | rose | nom recollection «cognition 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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