Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 43
But in heaven no soul will be able to say, "Never loved."
Who acts: soul · What happens: be, say, not love · To what, where: heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul), 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 | _ | 8 able | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 soul | det |
| 5 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 say | mark |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 13 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 loved | advmod |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | no soul | heaven | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | no soul not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not love in a quote | past | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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