Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 37
He read, "Greater love hath no man than this," and as he read a roseate hue spread over the cheeks of the queen, and her eyes became so enlightened and clear, that she saw from the leaves of the book a lovely rose spring forth, a type of Him who shed His blood on the cross.
Who acts: child, Greater love, roseate hue, eyes, hue, type · What happens: read, have, spread, become, enlighten, see · To what, where: man, cheeks, leaves, blood, cross, child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (child, Greater love, roseate hue, eyes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hath | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hath | punct |
| 5 | Greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 love | amod |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hath | nsubj |
| 7 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hath | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hath | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hath | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 read | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 read | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 read | nsubj |
| 17 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hue | det |
| 19 | roseate | roseate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hue | amod |
| 20 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spread | nsubj |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 read | ccomp |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 cheeks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cheeks | det |
| 24 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spread | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 queen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cheeks | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 became | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 became | cc |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 became | nsubj |
| 32 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | parataxis |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 enlightened | advmod |
| 34 | enlightened | enlighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 became | xcomp |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 clear | cc |
| 36 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 enlightened | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 saw | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 saw | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 became | conj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 leaves | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 leaves | det |
| 43 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 saw | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 book | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 book | det |
| 46 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 leaves | nmod |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 spring | det |
| 48 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 spring | amod |
| 49 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 spring | compound |
| 50 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 50 spring | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 type | punct |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 type | det |
| 54 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 spring | conj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Him | case |
| 56 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 type | nmod |
| 57 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 shed | nsubj |
| 58 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 type | acl:relcl |
| 59 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 60 blood | nmod:poss |
| 60 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 shed | obj |
| 61 | on | on | ADP | _ | 63 cross | case |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 cross | det |
| 63 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 shed | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Greater love | no man | than this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 3 | read | past | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | spread | past | a roseate hue | the cheeks of the queen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over cheek=Location | ||||
| 5 | become | past | hue's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | enlighten | participle | hue's eyes not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | see | past | hue | the leaves of the book | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | shed | past | a type of child | child's blood | the cross | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source | |||
| 9 | type | child | nom type «cognition 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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