Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 233
I took the beatings of a heart engaged in a good action, and added them to my treasure.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: take, engage, add, beat, treasure · To what, where: beatings, heart, good action
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beatings | det |
| 4 | beatings | beating | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beatings | nmod |
| 8 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heart | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 action | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 action | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 action | amod |
| 12 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engaged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 added | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 added | cc |
| 15 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 added | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 treasure | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 added | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | the beatings of a heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Theme | ||||
| 2 | engage | participle | a heart not said here | in a good action goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in action=Goal | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | I not said here | beatings = beating | to my treasure | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to treasure=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | beat | a heart | nom beating «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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