Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 9
Their appearance is very beautiful, for in each lies a glittering pearl, which would be fit for the diadem of a queen.
Who acts: appearance, glittering pearl · What happens: be, lie, glitter · To what, where: glittering pearl, each
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, glittering pearl), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 lies | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 lies | obl |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pearl | det |
| 12 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 pearl | amod |
| 13 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fit | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fit | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fit | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fit | cop |
| 18 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pearl | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 diadem | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 diadem | det |
| 21 | diadem | diadem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fit | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 queen | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 diadem | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shells's appearance | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | shells's appearance not said here | a glittering pearl | each | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pearl=Theme | |||
| 3 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | would | a glittering pearl | for the diadem of a queen; fit property | tree rules |
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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