Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 22
Well, then, let us go for this pearl--the only one lacking amidst all this wealth."
Who acts: you, us, only one · What happens: let, go, lack · To what, where: us
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 (you, us, only one), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 pearl | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 pearl | det |
| 10 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pearl | appos |
| 15 | lacking | lack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 one | acl |
| 16 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 19 wealth | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 wealth | det:predet |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 wealth | det |
| 19 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lacking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | for this pearl | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for pearl=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | lack | gerund | the only one not said here | amidst all wealth | tree rules |
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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