Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 12
"When Pulcinella was in very bad spirits, she was the only one who could force a hearty burst of laughter, or even a smile from him: first she would be melancholy with him, then quieter, and at last quite cheerful and happy. '
Who acts: Pulcinella, only one · What happens: be, force, burst · To what, where: bad spirits, only one, hearty burst, melancholy, laughter
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 (Pulcinella, only one), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 When | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | Pulcinella | Pulcinella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spirits | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spirits | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spirits | case |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spirits | amod |
| 8 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 When | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spirits | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 force | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 force | aux |
| 17 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 burst | det |
| 19 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burst | compound |
| 20 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 force | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 laughter | case |
| 22 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burst | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smile | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 smile | cc |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 smile | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 smile | det |
| 27 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burst | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 smile | nmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 melancholy | punct |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 melancholy | advmod |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 melancholy | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 melancholy | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 melancholy | cop |
| 35 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 force | parataxis |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 melancholy | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 quieter | punct |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 quieter | advmod |
| 40 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 melancholy | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cheerful | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 cheerful | cc |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 last | case |
| 44 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 cheerful | amod |
| 45 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 46 cheerful | advmod |
| 46 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 quieter | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 happy | cc |
| 48 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 cheerful | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 force | punct |
| 50 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 force | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Pulcinella | bad spirits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Pulcinella | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force in a quote | could | the only one | a hearty burst of laughter or a smile from ugliness | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burst=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | would | Pulcinella | melancholy | with ugliness; first property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be in a quote | Pulcinella not said here | then | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | burst in a quote | laughter | nom burst «act transitive»: of=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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