Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 19
She brings her gift with her, whether it is a world or a bauble.
Who acts: child, trace · What happens: bring, be, gift · To what, where: gift, world
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, trace), 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 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gift | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brings | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 world | punct |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 world | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 world | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 world | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 bauble | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bauble | det |
| 15 | bauble | bauble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 world | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | child | child's gift | with peasant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | trace | a world or a bauble | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gift | child | nom gift «possession transitive»: 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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