Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 42
The greatest splendor and the greatest magnificence one can imagine await them.
Who acts: greatest splendor · What happens: imagine, await · To what, where: splendor
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest splendor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 splendor | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 splendor | amod |
| 3 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imagine | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 one | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 6 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 one | amod |
| 7 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | compound |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 splendor | conj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagine | aux |
| 10 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 imagine | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 await | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | the greatest splendor and the greatest magnificence one | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | await | infinitive | the greatest splendor and the greatest magnificence one not said here | splendor | 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: «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.
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