Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 7
And she looked at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, and thought of the little one whom the stork was to bring, and the wife of the drummer was very cheerful, and looked and looked, and wished that the child might have a gleam of sunshine given to it, so that it might at least become like one of the shining angels over the altar.
Who acts: wife, stork, child · What happens: look, think, be, wish, have, give · To what, where: gleam, sunshine, sun, least · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, stork, child), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sun | amod |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 deeply | advmod |
| 15 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | obl |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bring | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stork | det |
| 25 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 bring | cop |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bring | mark |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cheerful | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 cheerful | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wife | det |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cheerful | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 drummer | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 drummer | det |
| 35 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wife | nmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 cheerful | cop |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 cheerful | advmod |
| 38 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 looked | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 looked | cc |
| 41 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 looked | cc |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 looked | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 wished | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wished | cc |
| 46 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 have | mark |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 child | det |
| 49 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 have | nsubj |
| 50 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 have | aux |
| 51 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 wished | ccomp |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 gleam | det |
| 53 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 have | obj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 sunshine | case |
| 55 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 gleam | nmod |
| 56 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 sunshine | acl |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 58 it | case |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 given | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 become | punct |
| 60 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 63 might | mark |
| 61 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 60 so | fixed |
| 62 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 might | nsubj |
| 63 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 become | aux |
| 64 | at | at | ADP | _ | 65 least | case |
| 65 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 66 become | obl |
| 66 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 wished | advcl |
| 67 | like | like | ADP | _ | 68 one | case |
| 68 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 66 become | obl |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 72 angels | case |
| 70 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 angels | det |
| 71 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 72 angels | amod |
| 72 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 one | nmod |
| 73 | over | over | ADP | _ | 75 altar | case |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 75 altar | det |
| 75 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 angels | nmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | wife | at the red sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | wife | about sun; deeply property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | wife not said here | of the little one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the stork | bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the wife of the drummer | cheerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 7 | look | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | wish | past | wife not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | have | might | the child | a gleam of sunshine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Patient | ||||
| 10 | give | participle | sunshine not said here | sun | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | ||||
| 11 | become | might | wife not said here | least | like one of the shining angels over the altar | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 12 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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