Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 90
They said Lady Halle was beautiful, but her beauty was that of a tempting fiend.
Who acts: arms, Lady, beauty · What happens: say, be, tempt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms, Lady, beauty), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | Halle | Halle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lady | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fiend | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fiend | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fiend | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fiend | cop |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fiend | mark |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fiend | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fiend | det |
| 15 | tempting | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fiend | amod |
| 16 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | arms = arm | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Lady | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tempt | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Molly's beauty | of a tempting fiend | 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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