Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 35
I love to collect pearls, and your eyes are the purest I have ever seen.
Who acts: I, eyes · What happens: love, collect, be, see · To what, where: pearls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, eyes), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 love | nsubj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 collect | mark |
| 4 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 love | xcomp |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collect | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 purest | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 purest | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 purest | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 purest | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 purest | det |
| 12 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 love | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 purest | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | collect not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | pearls | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | your eyes | pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | I | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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