Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 64
In the sweat of the face shalt thou eat bread," said she; "it is written in the Bible."
Who acts: thou, mother · What happens: eat, say, write · To what, where: bread, sweat, Bible · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, mother), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 sweat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sweat | det |
| 3 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 face | det |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sweat | nmod |
| 7 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | aux |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eat | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 written | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 written | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 written | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 written | aux:pass |
| 19 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eat | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Bible | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bible | det |
| 22 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 written | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | shall | thou | bread | the sweat of the face | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | present · passive | bread | the Bible | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bible=Destination |
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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