Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 10

The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him; but she preferred to marry the Harlequin.

Who acts: lovely Columbine, audience · What happens: be, prefer, marry · To what, where: public, Harlequin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Columbine, audience), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Columbine	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Columbine	amod
3	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 kind	advmod
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cordial	cc
8	cordial	cordial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cordial	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 preferred	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 preferred	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 preferred	nsubj
14	preferred	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 marry	mark
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 preferred	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Harlequin	det
18	Harlequin	Harlequin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lovely Columbine			indeed, kind property	tree rules
2	be		the lovely Columbine not said here		public		tree rules
3	prefer	past	audience				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	audience not said here	the Harlequin			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlequin=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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