Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 56
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust.
Who acts: Human beings, soul · What happens: have, live, turn · To what, where: soul, body, dust
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Human beings, soul), 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 | Human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beings | amod |
| 2 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 contrary | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 contrary | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 contrary | det |
| 6 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beings | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 beings | punct |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 soul | det |
| 10 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 soul | acl:relcl |
| 13 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 12 lives | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lives | punct |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lives | conj |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 turned | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 turned | aux:pass |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lives | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 dust | case |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Human beings | a soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | a soul | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | a soul not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | present · perfect · passive | the body | dust | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to dust=Trajectory |
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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