Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 96
It is written, that a good deed bears a blessing for its fruit; and it is also written, that the wages of sin is death.
Who acts: wages · What happens: write, be · To what, where: thought, death
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 (wages), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bears | punct |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 bears | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bears | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bears | amod |
| 8 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bears | compound |
| 9 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 written | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 blessing | det |
| 11 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bears | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fruit | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fruit | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 written | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 written | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 written | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 written | aux:pass |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 written | advmod |
| 20 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 written | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 death | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 death | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wages | det |
| 24 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 death | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sin | case |
| 26 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wages | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 death | cop |
| 28 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 written | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · passive | thought | a good deed bears and a blessing for thought's fruit obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | thought | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the wages of sin | death | 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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