Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 47
But she was full of mystery about her art, in which a certain pair of magic spectacles did her essential service.
Who acts: person, certain pair · What happens: be, do, service · To what, where: essential service, mystery
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, certain pair), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 full | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mystery | case |
| 6 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 art | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 art | nmod:poss |
| 9 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mystery | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 did | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pair | det |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pair | amod |
| 15 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spectacles | case |
| 17 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spectacles | amod |
| 18 | spectacles | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pair | nmod |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mystery | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 service | nmod:poss |
| 21 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 service | amod |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | person | of mystery about person's art; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | a certain pair of magic spectacles | person's essential service | mystery about person's art | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | service | person | nom service «act 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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