Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 7
Bring her the loveliest rose in the world; one which exhibits the purest and brightest love, and if it is brought to her before her eyes close, she will not die."
Who acts: you, one, thing · What happens: bring, exhibit, not die · To what, where: loveliest rose, thing, purest love, love
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 (you, one, thing), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rose | det |
| 4 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 rose | amod |
| 5 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 exhibits | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 exhibits | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 exhibits | nsubj |
| 12 | exhibits | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 love | det |
| 14 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 love | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brightest | cc |
| 16 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 purest | conj |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exhibits | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 brought | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux:pass |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 exhibits | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obl |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 close | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 close | nsubj |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brought | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 die | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 die | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 die | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 die | advmod |
| 34 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | the loveliest rose | thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination rose=Theme | |||
| 2 | exhibit | present | one | the purest love | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | love | thing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not die | future | thing | 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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