Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 7
All the good stars of life had brought their gifts to the newly born; here sparkled health, wealth, fortune, and love; in short, there seemed to be everything for which man could wish on earth.
Who acts: man, stars · What happens: bring, bear, sparkle, seem, be, wish · To what, where: good stars, everything, 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 (man, stars), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 stars | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stars | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stars | amod |
| 4 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stars | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 14 born | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 born | det |
| 13 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 14 born | advmod |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 brought | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 health | punct |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sparkled | advmod |
| 17 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 health | amod |
| 18 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wealth | punct |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 health | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fortune | punct |
| 22 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 health | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 love | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 love | cc |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 health | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 short | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 short | case |
| 28 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brought | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seemed | punct |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 seemed | expl |
| 31 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 short | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 everything | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 everything | cop |
| 34 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 seemed | xcomp |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 wish | mark |
| 36 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wish | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 wish | aux |
| 39 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 everything | acl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 earth | case |
| 41 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wish | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | all good stars of life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination gift=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | participle | newly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | sparkle | participle | here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | everything | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wish | could | which man | earth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | gift | stars = star | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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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