Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 16
But the water of faith has no power unless the well-spring of faith flows within.
Who acts: water, well spring · What happens: have, flow · To what, where: power
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, well spring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 has | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 faith | case |
| 5 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | nmod |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 16 flows | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spring | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spring | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flows | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 faith | case |
| 15 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spring | nmod |
| 16 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 has | advcl |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 flows | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the water of faith | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flow a condition, not said to happen | present | the well spring of faith | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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