Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 15
"How lovely to my wondering eyes Mont Blanc's fair summits gently rise; 'Tis sweet to breathe the mountain air,-- If you have gold enough to spare."
Who acts: fair summits, you · What happens: wonder, rise, breathe, have, spare · To what, where: wondering eyes, mountain air, gold
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair summits, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 lovely | advmod |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lovely | obl |
| 8 | Mont | Mont | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 summits | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Blanc | Blanc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mont | flat |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Mont | case |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 summits | amod |
| 12 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rise | nsubj |
| 13 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 14 rise | advmod |
| 14 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweet | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweet | punct |
| 17 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sweet | compound |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lovely | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 breathe | mark |
| 20 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sweet | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 air | compound |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 breathe | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 26 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lovely | conj |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 lovely | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 spare | mark |
| 32 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lovely | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | rise in a quote | present | Mont's fair summits | my wondering eyes not said here | gently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | breathe in a quote | to-infinitive | the mountain air | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spare in a quote | to-infinitive | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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