Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 96
It has been said, and is preserved in popular belief, that where the rainbow touches the earth a treasure lies buried, a golden treasure; and here there was one.
Who acts: rainbow, treasure, one · What happens: say, preserve, touch, lie, bury, be · To what, where: spread, popular belief, earth · 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 (rainbow, treasure, 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 | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 preserved | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 preserved | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 preserved | aux:pass |
| 8 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 belief | case |
| 10 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 belief | amod |
| 11 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preserved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touches | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 touches | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 touches | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rainbow | det |
| 16 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touches | nsubj |
| 17 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 belief | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touches | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 treasure | det |
| 21 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lies | nsubj |
| 22 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 earth | acl:relcl |
| 23 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lies | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 treasure | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 treasure | det |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 treasure | amod |
| 27 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 earth | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 here | cc |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 was | advmod |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 was | nsubj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | spread | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preserve | present · passive | popular belief | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | touch | present | the rainbow | popular belief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer earth=Result | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | a treasure | the earth and a golden treasure not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bury | participle | a treasure not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | be | past | one | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «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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