Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 45
The stream of life is a stream of happiness; let us flow on with it to joy and felicity."
Who acts: stream, us · What happens: be, let, flow on · To what, where: stream, us
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 (stream, us), 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 stream | det |
| 2 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stream | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stream | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stream | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stream | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stream | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 flow | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 joy | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 joy | mark |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flow | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felicity | cc |
| 20 | felicity | felicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 joy | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stream | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the stream of life | a stream | of happiness | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flow on | infinitive | us not said here | with joy and felicity | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme |
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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