Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 20
He did love her, love her adoringly, as he loved what was great and lofty in art.
Who acts: love · What happens: love, be · To what, where: melancholy, art
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 (love), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | aux |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 love | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 6 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 love | obj |
| 8 | adoringly | adoringly | ADV | _ | 6 love | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loved | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 loved | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 great | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 great | cop |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 loved | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lofty | cc |
| 17 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 great | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 art | case |
| 19 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 great | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past · do-support | love | melancholy | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | past | love not said here | melancholy | adoringly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | love | past | love | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | art | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | tree rules |
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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