Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 49
The icy kiss of death had overcome the perishable body; it was but the prelude before life's real drama could begin, the discord which was quickly lost in harmony.
Who acts: kiss, real drama · What happens: overcome, be, begin, lose, kiss · To what, where: icy kiss, prelude, discord, harmony, death
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kiss, real drama), 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 | 3 kiss | det |
| 2 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kiss | amod |
| 3 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kiss | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 overcome | aux |
| 7 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 9 | perishable | perishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overcome | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 prelude | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prelude | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prelude | cop |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 prelude | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prelude | det |
| 16 | prelude | prelude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overcome | parataxis |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 begin | mark |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drama | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 life | case |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 drama | amod |
| 21 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 begin | aux |
| 23 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prelude | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 discord | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 discord | det |
| 26 | discord | discord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 begin | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux:pass |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 lost | advmod |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 discord | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 harmony | case |
| 32 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · perfect · passive | the icy kiss of death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | kiss | the prelude | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | could | life's real drama | the discord | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | the discord | harmony | quickly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | kiss | death | nom kiss «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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