Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 18
She has no abiding place; she rules in the palace of the emperor, sometimes she enters the peasant's humble cot; she passes no one without leaving a trace of her presence.
Who acts: child · What happens: have, rule, enter, pass, leave · To what, where: abiding place, palace, humble cot, one, trace
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 (child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 place | det |
| 4 | abiding | abiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | compound |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 rules | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rules | nsubj |
| 8 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | parataxis |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rules | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 emperor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emperor | det |
| 14 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enters | punct |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 enters | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enters | nsubj |
| 18 | enters | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peasant | det |
| 20 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cot | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 peasant | case |
| 22 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cot | amod |
| 23 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enters | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 passes | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 passes | nsubj |
| 26 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 passes | obj |
| 29 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 30 leaving | mark |
| 30 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 passes | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 trace | det |
| 32 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leaving | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 presence | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 presence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trace | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | child | no abiding place | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rule | child | the palace of the emperor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enter | present | child | the peasant's humble cot | sometimes property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cot=Destination | |||
| 4 | pass | present | child | no one | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | child not said here | a trace of child's presence | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=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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