Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 5
Everything invited to slumber, everything had a charming look of repose; and so the nurse had discovered, for she slept; and well she might sleep, while everything around her told of happiness and blessing.
Who acts: everything, lamp · What happens: invite, slumber, have, discover, sleep, tell · To what, where: Everything, nurse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everything, lamp), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 had | obj |
| 2 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Everything | acl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 slumber | mark |
| 4 | slumber | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 invited | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Everything | punct |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 look | det |
| 9 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | amod |
| 10 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 repose | case |
| 12 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 discovered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 discovered | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 discovered | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nurse | det |
| 17 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discovered | aux |
| 19 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slept | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 slept | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slept | nsubj |
| 23 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discovered | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 sleep | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sleep | cc |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 sleep | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sleep | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 sleep | aux |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 while | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 sleep | obl |
| 32 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 while | fixed |
| 33 | around | around | ADP | _ | 35 told | mark |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 told | nmod:poss |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 everything | acl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 happiness | case |
| 37 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 told | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 blessing | cc |
| 39 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 happiness | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | participle | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | slumber not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | everything | Everything | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover | past · perfect · passive | the nurse | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sleep | past | lamp | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sleep | might | lamp | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | participle | of happiness and blessing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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