Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 248

A block of marble soon appeared, a rounded shoulder was laid bare; and now the spade was plied with a more careful hand, and presently a female head was seen, and butterflies' wings.

Who acts: block · What happens: appear, round, lay, ply, see · To what, where: rounded shoulder, spade, female head

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 (block), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 block	det
2	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 marble	case
4	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 block	nmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 appeared	advmod
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shoulder	det
9	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shoulder	amod
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	aux:pass
12	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 appeared	conj
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laid	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 plied	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plied	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 plied	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spade	det
18	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plied	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plied	aux:pass
20	plied	ply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 appeared	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 hand	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hand	det
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 careful	advmod
24	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plied	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
28	presently	presently	ADV	_	33 seen	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 head	det
30	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 head	amod
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 plied	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wings	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wings	cc
36	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 wings	nmod:poss
37	'	's	PART	_	36 butterflies	case
38	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seen	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a block of marble			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	round	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	past · passive		a rounded shoulder		bare property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
4	ply	past · passive		the spade	now	with a careful hand	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: subject=Recipient with hand=Theme
5	see	past · passive		a female head		butterflies's wings obl; presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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