--- title: “O mighty Death! thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “O mighty Death! thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts? Who acts: mighty Death, Thou, thy, my. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty Death, Thou, thy, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:9:116 # text = “O mighty Death! thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts? 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ 3 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 6 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 12 nsubj _ _ 12 leadest lead VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 near near ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 brink brink NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 23 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | mighty Death | nought | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nought=Recipient | | 2 | **lead** *in a quote* | present | Thou | the near grave's brink | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brink=Theme | | 3 | **break** *in a quote* | present · passive | mighty Death *not said here* | the ladder of my thoughts | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **silence** *in a quote* | | thy | | | | | | nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **think** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/117/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/)