Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 190

One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it."

Who acts: One, other · What happens: be, imagine, describe · To what, where: anything, all, world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, other), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 beautiful	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 One	nmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beautiful	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 beautiful	advmod
6	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 imagine	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 imagine	mark
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 imagine	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 imagine	aux
16	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 beautiful	parataxis
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 imagine	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 anything	nmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 all	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 ugly	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 ugly	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ugly	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ugly	cop
27	just	just	ADV	_	29 ugly	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 ugly	advmod
29	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beautiful	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 frightful	cc
31	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ugly	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 impossible	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	38 impossible	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 impossible	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 impossible	expl
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 impossible	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 impossible	cop
38	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beautiful	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 describe	mark
40	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 impossible	csubj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 describe	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 beautiful	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	One of these			beautiful, wonderfully property	tree rules
2	imagine	can	no one in the world	anything	all		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
3	is	present	the other			ugly property	tree rules
4	be		the other not said here				tree rules
5	is	would	One of these not said here			impossible property	tree rules
6	describe	to-infinitive		world			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=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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