Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 19
It is seen on the blooming cheeks of my sweet child, when it expresses the pure and holy love of infancy; when refreshed by sleep it opens its eyes, and smiles upon me with childlike affection."
Who acts: memory · What happens: see, bloom, express, refresh, open, smile · To what, where: memory, blooming cheeks, pure love, eyes, infancy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memory), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cheeks | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cheeks | det |
| 6 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 cheeks | amod |
| 7 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 child | amod |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cheeks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expresses | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 expresses | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 expresses | nsubj |
| 15 | expresses | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 child | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 love | det |
| 17 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 love | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 holy | cc |
| 19 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pure | conj |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expresses | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 infancy | case |
| 22 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 love | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 refreshed | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 refreshed | advmod |
| 25 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seen | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 sleep | case |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 refreshed | obl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 opens | nsubj |
| 29 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 refreshed | parataxis |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 opens | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 smiles | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 smiles | cc |
| 34 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 opens | conj |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 smiles | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 affection | case |
| 38 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 affection | amod |
| 39 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 smiles | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | memory | the blooming cheeks of my sweet child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | express | present | memory | the pure love of infancy | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme love=Reflexive | ||||
| 4 | refresh | participle | by sleep | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | open | present | memory | memory's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | smile | present | memory not said here | upon me; with childlike affection | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | love | infancy | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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