Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 180
His blind daughter was his consolation and joy; she clung to him with sincere affection, and for the sake of his happiness and peace she wished the costly jewel could be found and brought home.
Who acts: blind daughter, page · What happens: be, cling, wish, find, bring · To what, where: consolation, father, costly jewel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind daughter, page), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consolation | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consolation | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 consolation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 joy | cc |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consolation | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 clung | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clung | nsubj |
| 11 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consolation | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 clung | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 affection | case |
| 15 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 affection | amod |
| 16 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clung | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wished | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wished | cc |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 sake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sake | det |
| 21 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wished | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 happiness | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sake | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 peace | cc |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 happiness | conj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wished | nsubj |
| 28 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clung | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jewel | det |
| 30 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 jewel | amod |
| 31 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 found | aux:pass |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 wished | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 brought | cc |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 found | conj |
| 37 | home | home | ADV | _ | 36 brought | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consolation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | father's blind daughter | father's consolation and joy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cling | past | page | father | with sincere affection | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | past | page | for the sake of father's happiness and peace | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | could · passive | the costly jewel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring | participle | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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: «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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