Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 234

All that I can bring is but dust; still, it is a part of the jewel we seek, and there is plenty, my hand is quite full of it."

Who acts: All, dust, we · What happens: bring, be, seek · To what, where: dust, part, 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 (All, dust, we), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 dust	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 bring	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bring	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 All	acl:relcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dust	cop
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 dust	cc
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 full	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 part	punct
10	still	still	ADV	_	15 part	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 still	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 part	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 part	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 part	det
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dust	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 jewel	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 jewel	det
18	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 part	nmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seek	nsubj
20	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 jewel	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 is	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 full	cop
25	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 is	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 full	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 full	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 full	advmod
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 full	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 full	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	can					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	All	dust			tree rules
3	is a	present	dust	a part	still	of the jewel	tree rules
4	seek	present	we	the jewel not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme
5	is	present	dust			of hand; full property	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: «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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