Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 38
Here dwells no fairy whose pearl could be counted amongst the best gifts of life."
What happens: dwell, count, gift · To what, where: fairy, pearl, life
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 dwells | advmod |
| 2 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fairy | det |
| 4 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dwells | obj |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 pearl | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 counted | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 counted | aux:pass |
| 9 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 13 gifts | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gifts | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 gifts | amod |
| 13 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 counted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gifts | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwells | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dwells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | no fairy | here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fairy=Location | ||||
| 2 | count | could · passive | pearl | amongst the best gifts of life | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gift | life | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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