Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 159
All the world is to see the letters she gets from her golden treasure, and to read the words that are written in the papers about his violin playing.
Who acts: world, Charlotte, violin · What happens: be, get, read, write, play, treasure · To what, where: letters, golden treasure, words, papers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, Charlotte, violin), 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 | 3 world | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 letters | det |
| 8 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gets | nsubj |
| 10 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 letters | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 treasure | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 treasure | amod |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gets | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 read | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 read | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 read | mark |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 words | det |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 read | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 written | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 written | aux:pass |
| 23 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 words | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 papers | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 papers | det |
| 26 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 written | obl |
| 27 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 violin | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 violin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 papers | nmod |
| 30 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 violin | acl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all world | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Charlotte | the letters not said here | Charlotte's golden treasure | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from treasure=Source | |||
| 3 | read | to-infinitive | the words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 4 | write | present · passive | the words | the papers about heaven's violin | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in paper=Destination | ||||
| 5 | play | gerund | heaven's violin not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | treasure | Charlotte | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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