Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 184
How she wished she might dream of them; but it was strange that not even in dreams could she be brought near to them.
Who acts: page, key · What happens: wish, dream, be, bring · To what, where: dreams · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (page, key), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | aux |
| 6 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 strange | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 strange | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strange | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strange | cop |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wished | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 brought | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 dreams | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 dreams | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dreams | case |
| 18 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 brought | aux |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brought | aux:pass |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 strange | advcl |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | page | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dream | might | page | of jewel | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | key | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | could · passive | dreams | near jewel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/184/