Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 44
One of them held out her hand, in which was a heart made of sugar, more beautiful than any confectioner ever sold.
Who acts: One · What happens: hold out, be, make, sell · To what, where: hand, heart, confectioner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 held | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heart | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heart | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heart | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 heart | det |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | appos |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 heart | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sugar | case |
| 16 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sugar | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 confectioner | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 confectioner | det |
| 22 | confectioner | confectioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beautiful | obl |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 sold | advmod |
| 24 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 confectioner | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | One of girls | stream's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a heart | stream's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a heart not said here | of sugar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | sell | participle | any confectioner not said here | ever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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