Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 68
This poor child was now the pride of his country; for the sculptured marble, the work of his hands, had astonished the world.
Who acts: poor child, hands · What happens: be, sculpture, astonish, work · To what, where: pride, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child, hands), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 child | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pride | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pride | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 pride | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pride | det |
| 7 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pride | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 marble | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 marble | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 marble | det |
| 14 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 marble | amod |
| 15 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pride | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 work | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marble | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hands | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 work | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 astonished | punct |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 astonished | aux |
| 24 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 marble | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 astonished | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this poor child | the pride | now | of foliage's country | tree rules | ||
| 2 | sculpture | participle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | astonish | past · perfect | this poor child not said here | the world | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus world=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | work | foliage's hands | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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