Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 84
"In heaven with the Eternal God, it can be imagined, and it is possible," sounded the reply through the air.
Who acts: heaven · What happens: imagine, be, sound · To what, where: heaven, reply, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heaven), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 imagined | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 imagined | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 God | det |
| 6 | Eternal | Eternal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 God | compound |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heaven | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heaven | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 imagined | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 imagined | aux:pass |
| 12 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sounded | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 possible | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 possible | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 possible | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 possible | cop |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 imagined | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 imagined | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounded | punct |
| 20 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reply | det |
| 22 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sounded | obj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reply | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine in a quote | can · passive | heaven | heaven with the Eternal God | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | heaven | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | the reply | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reply=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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