Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 27
"Holy and wonderful in its might is the white rose of grief, but it is not the one we seek."
Who acts: crown, we · What happens: be, not be, seek · To what, where: white rose, one
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 (crown, we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Holy | punct |
| 2 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wonderful | cc |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Holy | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rose | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | aux |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rose | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rose | amod |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wonderful | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grief | case |
| 13 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 one | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 one | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Holy | appos |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 seek | nsubj |
| 22 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Holy | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Holy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | might | crown's white rose | of grief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | crown | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | we | the one not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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