Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 241
It was there to prove the certainty of eternal life, and on the book glowed one shining word, and only one, the word BELIEVE.
Who acts: dust, one · What happens: be, prove, glow, shine, believe · To what, where: certainty, one shining word, book
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 (dust, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 prove | mark |
| 5 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 there | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 certainty | det |
| 7 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prove | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 9 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 life | amod |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 certainty | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glowed | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glowed | obl |
| 16 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 there | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 word | nummod |
| 18 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 word | amod |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glowed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 BELIEVE | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 BELIEVE | cc |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 one | advmod |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 BELIEVE | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 word | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | conj |
| 27 | BELIEVE | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glowed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dust | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | dust not said here | the certainty of eternal life | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent certainty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | one shining word | the book | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | believe | infinitive | one and the word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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