Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 39
He who beholds this, the loveliest rose on earth, shall never die."
Who acts: child · What happens: behold, not die · To what, where: this
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), 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 | 3 beholds | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 beholds | nsubj |
| 3 | beholds | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 beholds | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rose | det |
| 7 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 rose | amod |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beholds | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 die | advmod |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rose | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beholds | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beholds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | present | child | this | the loveliest rose on earth obl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not die | shall | child not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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