--- title: All the good stars of life had brought their gifts to the newly born… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: All the good stars of life had brought their gifts to the newly born; here sparkled health, wealth, fortune, and love; in short, there seemed to be everything for which man could wish on earth. Who acts: man, stars. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last P --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/) / 7 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 7 All the good stars of life had brought their gifts to the newly born; here sparkled health, wealth, fortune, and love; in short, there seemed to be everything for which man could wish on earth. **Who acts:** man, stars · **What happens:** bring, bear, sparkle, seem, be, wish · **To what, where:** good stars, everything, earth This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, stars), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:70:7 # text = All the good stars of life had brought their gifts to the newly born; here sparkled health, wealth, fortune, and love; in short, there seemed to be everything for which man could wish on earth. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 gifts gift NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 to to SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 newly newly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 sparkled sparkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 health health NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 31 expl _ _ 31 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 xcomp _ _ 35 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 37 det _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | all good stars of life | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination gift=Theme | | 2 | **bear** | participle | | | | | | newly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **sparkle** | participle | | | | here | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seem** | past | | | | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | everything | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wish** | could | which man | | | earth | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **gift** | | stars *= star* | | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/8/) - ↑ back to [The Last Pearl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/70/)