Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 46
Through the night of the grave we gaze upwards beyond the stars to the end of all things.
Who acts: we · What happens: gaze
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 (we), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gaze | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 grave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grave | det |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gaze | nsubj |
| 8 | gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 8 gaze | advmod |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 stars | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stars | det |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gaze | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gaze | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 things | det |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gaze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | present | we | to the end of all things; night | beyond the stars; upwards property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent beyond star=Theme |
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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