Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 100

They repeated it, and wrote it down as a recipe, "Love is a life-giver."

Who acts: Inquiries, Love · What happens: repeat, write down, be · To what, where: more, life giver

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (Inquiries, Love), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	nsubj
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 repeated	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wrote	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrote	cc
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 repeated	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 wrote	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 recipe	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 recipe	det
11	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 giver	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 giver	punct
14	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giver	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 giver	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 giver	det
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giver	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 life	punct
19	giver	giver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recipe	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repeat	past	Inquiries = inquiry	more		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	write down	past	Inquiries = inquiry not said here	more	as a recipe	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Result as recipe=Attribute
3	is a in a quote	present	Love	a life giver		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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