Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 115
When the casket is everything, the casket should be strong, or else all is over.
Who acts: casket, everything, all · What happens: be · To what, where: everything
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casket, everything, all), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 everything | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 casket | det |
| 3 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everything | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 everything | cop |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 everything | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 casket | det |
| 8 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strong | cop |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 over | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 over | cc |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 all | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 over | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 over | cop |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 strong | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the casket | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | should | everything | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | all | over property | tree rules |
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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