Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 52
The happiness of his future life depended upon the decision of his present reflections.
Who acts: happiness · What happens: depend, decide · To what, where: present reflections
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness), 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 happiness | det |
| 2 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happiness | nmod |
| 7 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 decision | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 decision | det |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reflections | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 reflections | nmod:poss |
| 13 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reflections | amod |
| 14 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 decision | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 depended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | past | the happiness of happiness's future life | upon the decision of happiness's present reflections | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | decide | happiness's present reflections | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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