Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 10
"Wanting!" cried the guardian angel; "nothing must be wanting here; and if it is so, let us fetch it; let us seek the powerful fairy; let us go to her."
Who acts: guardian angel, nothing, voice, us · What happens: want, cry, be, let, fetch, seek · To what, where: us, voice, powerful fairy, fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian angel, nothing, voice, us), 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 | _ | 2 Wanting | punct |
| 2 | Wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cried | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wanting | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wanting | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 angel | det |
| 7 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 angel | amod |
| 8 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanting | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanting | punct |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 wanting | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wanting | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanting | aux |
| 14 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wanting | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 let | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 is | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 is | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 is | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fetch | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | conj |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fairy | det |
| 32 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 fairy | amod |
| 33 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 seek | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 let | punct |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | conj |
| 36 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 let | obj |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 let | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 go | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | gerund | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the guardian angel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | must · progressive | nothing | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | voice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | voice | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | seek in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the powerful fairy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 9 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | fairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location |
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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