Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 12
"Her pearl must not be missing; it must be there, that the crown, when worn, may be complete.
Who acts: pearl, crown, fairy · What happens: not be, be, wear, pearl
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 (pearl, crown, fairy), 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 | _ | 7 missing | punct |
| 2 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pearl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missing | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 missing | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 missing | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 missing | cop |
| 7 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 there | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 there | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 missing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 complete | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 complete | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 complete | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worn | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 worn | mark |
| 19 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 crown | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crown | punct |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 complete | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 complete | cop |
| 23 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 missing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 missing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | must | fairy's pearl | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | pearl | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear in a quote | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | the crown | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pearl in a quote | fairy | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=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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