Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 77

It is with the clever or wonderful things we say or hear in dreams, as with the gold which comes from under the earth, it is rich and beautiful when we possess it, but when seen in a true light it is but as stones and withered leaves."

Who acts: light, we, gold, clever things · What happens: be, say, hear, come, possess, see · To what, where: clever things, dreams, earth, thing, true light, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, we, gold, clever things), 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	8 things	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 things	cop
3	with	with	ADP	_	8 things	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 things	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 wonderful	cc
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clever	conj
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rich	nsubj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 things	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 hear	cc
12	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 dreams	case
14	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gold	punct
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 gold	case
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 gold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gold	det
19	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 things	appos
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 comes	nsubj
21	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 gold	acl:relcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 earth	case
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 earth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 earth	det
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 comes	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 things	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rich	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rich	cop
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beautiful	cc
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rich	conj
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 possess	advmod
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 possess	nsubj
34	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 rich	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 possess	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 seen	cc
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	39 seen	mark
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rich	parataxis
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 light	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 light	det
42	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 light	amod
43	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 stones	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 stones	cop
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 stones	cc
47	as	as	ADP	_	48 stones	case
48	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 light	acl:relcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 withered	cc
50	withered	wither	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	conj
51	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 withered	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 rich	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	light			with the clever things	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	we	the clever things not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
3	hear	present	we not said here		dreams		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	present	the gold		the earth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from earth=Initial_Location
5	is	present	the clever things			rich property	tree rules
6	be		the clever things not said here				tree rules
7	possess	present	we	thing			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
8	see	participle			a true light		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	present	light	a true light not said here		as stones	tree rules
10	wither	past		leaves			tree rules

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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