Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 91
Saint Elizabeth, the tutelar saint of the land, the pious princess of Thuringia, whose good deeds have been immortalized in so many places through stories and legends, had greater beauty and more real grace.
Who acts: stories, Saint Elizabeth · What happens: immortalize, have · To what, where: good deeds, many places, greater beauty
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 (stories, Saint Elizabeth), 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 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Elizabeth | compound |
| 2 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saint | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saint | det |
| 5 | tutelar | tutelar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saint | compound |
| 6 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Elizabeth | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saint | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 princess | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 12 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 princess | amod |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saint | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Thuringia | case |
| 15 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 princess | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 immortalized | punct |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deeds | amod |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 immortalized | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 immortalized | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 immortalized | aux:pass |
| 22 | immortalized | immortalize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 princess | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 places | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 places | amod |
| 26 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 immortalized | obl |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 stories | case |
| 28 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 immortalized | obl:agent |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 legends | cc |
| 30 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 stories | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Elizabeth | punct |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 beauty | amod |
| 34 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 grace | cc |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 real | advmod |
| 37 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 grace | amod |
| 38 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 beauty | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | immortalize | present · perfect · passive | stories and legends | good deeds | many places | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | Saint Elizabeth | greater beauty and real grace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=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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