Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 43
The pearl of Sorrow, the last, which must not be wanting, increases the lustre, and explains the meaning of all the other pearls.
Who acts: pearl, Sorrow · What happens: not want, increase, explain, pearl, mean · To what, where: lustre, meaning, other pearls
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, Sorrow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pearl | det |
| 2 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 increases | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Sorrow | case |
| 4 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pearl | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 last | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 last | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pearl | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanting | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wanting | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wanting | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wanting | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanting | aux |
| 13 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 last | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pearl | punct |
| 15 | increases | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lustre | det |
| 17 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 increases | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 explains | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 explains | cc |
| 20 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 increases | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 meaning | det |
| 22 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 explains | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pearls | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 pearls | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pearls | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pearls | amod |
| 27 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 meaning | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 increases | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | must · progressive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | increase | present | the pearl of Sorrow | the lustre | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer lustre=Patient | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | the pearl of Sorrow not said here | the meaning of all other pearls | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pearl | Sorrow | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mean | all other pearls | nom meaning «communication 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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