Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 44
"Do you see the shimmer of the rainbow, which unites earth to heaven?"
Who acts: you, shimmer, rainbow · What happens: see, unite, shimmer · To what, where: shimmer, earth
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, shimmer, rainbow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shimmer | det |
| 6 | shimmer | shimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rainbow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rainbow | det |
| 9 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shimmer | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unites | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 unites | nsubj |
| 12 | unites | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shimmer | acl:relcl |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unites | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unites | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | the shimmer of the rainbow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shimmer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | unite in a quote | present | the shimmer of the rainbow | earth | to heaven | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient to heaven=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | shimmer in a quote | the rainbow | nom shimmer «event intransitive»: of=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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