Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 246
But this was not poor, insignificant, common dust, which the blind girl had brought; even the rainbow's colors are dim when compared with the beauty which shone from the page on which it had fallen.
Who acts: this, rainbow colors, beauty, dust · What happens: not be, bring, be, compare, shine, fall · To what, where: blind girl, page
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 (this, rainbow colors, beauty, dust), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 poor | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 poor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poor | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 poor | advmod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 insignificant | punct |
| 7 | insignificant | insignificant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poor | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dust | punct |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dust | amod |
| 10 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 insignificant | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 brought | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 insignificant | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dim | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 rainbow | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rainbow | det |
| 21 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 colors | compound |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 rainbow | case |
| 23 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dim | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dim | cop |
| 25 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poor | conj |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 compared | advmod |
| 27 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 dim | advcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 beauty | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 beauty | det |
| 30 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 compared | obl |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 shone | nsubj |
| 32 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 page | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 page | det |
| 35 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shone | obl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 fallen | obl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fallen | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fallen | aux |
| 40 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 page | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | this | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the blind girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination which=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | rainbow colors | dim property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | compare | participle | rainbow colors not said here | with the beauty | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with beauty=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | the beauty | the page | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | dust | the page | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on which=Location |
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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