Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 47
Then we glance at the pearl of Sorrow, in which are concealed the wings which shall carry us away to eternal happiness.
Who acts: we, wings, Sorrow · What happens: glance, conceal, carry, pearl · To what, where: wings, 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 (we, wings, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 glance | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 glance | nsubj |
| 3 | glance | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pearl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pearl | det |
| 6 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glance | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sorrow | case |
| 8 | Sorrow | Sorrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pearl | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 concealed | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 concealed | obl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 concealed | aux:pass |
| 13 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glance | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wings | det |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 concealed | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wings | acl:relcl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carry | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 happiness | case |
| 22 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happiness | amod |
| 23 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | present | we | then | at the pearl of Sorrow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pearl=Theme | |||
| 2 | conceal | present · passive | we not said here | the wings | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: wing=Patient in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | shall | the wings | us | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 4 | pearl | Sorrow | nom pearl «possession 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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