Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 129

Poor Kaela! our life was but as a meeting by the way-side; in yonder world, where we shall know each other from a union of mind, we shall be but mere acquaintances."

Who acts: Poor Kaela, we · What happens: be, know · To what, where: world, each, union

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 (Poor Kaela, we), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Kaela	amod
2	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 meeting	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Kaela	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meeting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 meeting	cop
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 meeting	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 meeting	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 meeting	det
10	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	15 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 side	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 way	punct
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meeting	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 world	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	19 world	advmod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meeting	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 know	advmod
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 world	conj
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	24 know	obj
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 union	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 union	det
29	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 know	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 mind	case
31	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 union	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 meeting	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 be	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 meeting	acl:relcl
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 acquaintances	cc
37	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 acquaintances	amod
38	acquaintances	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 meeting	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 meeting	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 meeting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Poor Kaela			world		as a meeting but mere acquaintances; by the way side	tree rules
2	know	shall	we	each		a union of mind			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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