Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 28
What is once mine remains mine."
Who acts: mine · What happens: be, remain · To what, where: mine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mine), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 once | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 once | cop |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 remains | advmod |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 remains | nsubj |
| 5 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 remains | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remains | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | once property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | remain | present | mine | mine | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme my=Attribute |
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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