Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 138

On the ground lay many a sketch that resembled the daughters of the Campagna, in their fresh, hearty comeliness, but the two originals were far handsomer than their portraits.

Who acts: sketch, two originals, sketches · What happens: lie, resemble, be, portray · To what, where: many, ground, daughters, fresh hearty comeliness

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sketch, two originals, sketches), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sketch	det
7	sketch	sketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 resembled	nsubj
9	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sketch	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughters	det
11	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 resembled	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Campagna	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Campagna	det
14	Campagna	Campagna	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughters	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 comeliness	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	21 comeliness	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 comeliness	nmod:poss
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 comeliness	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fresh	punct
20	hearty	hearty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 comeliness	amod
21	comeliness	comeliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resembled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 handsomer	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 handsomer	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 originals	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 originals	nummod
26	originals	original	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 handsomer	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 handsomer	cop
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 handsomer	advmod
29	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 lay	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 portraits	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 portraits	nmod:poss
32	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 handsomer	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		many	the ground		tree rules
2	resemble	past	a sketch	the daughters of the Campagna	sketches's fresh hearty comeliness		tree rules
3	is	past	the two originals			than sketches's portraits; far, handsome property	tree rules
4	portray		sketches = sketch				nom portrait «communication 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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