Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 27

The soft clay was fashioned under his fingers into forms of beauty, but the next day he broke what he had fashioned, according to his wont.

Who acts: soft clay, Fornarina · What happens: be, break, have, accord, form · To what, where: fingers, beauty

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 (soft clay, Fornarina), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 clay	det
2	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clay	amod
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fashioned	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fashioned	cop
5	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 fingers	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fashioned	obl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 forms	case
10	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fingers	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beauty	case
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forms	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obl:unmarked
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fashioned	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 broke	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 what	acl:relcl
23	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 had	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wont	punct
25	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 wont	case
26	to	to	ADP	_	25 according	fixed
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wont	nmod:poss
28	wont	wont	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fashioned	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fashioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soft clay		Fornarina's fingers into forms of beauty		fashioned property	tree rules
2	break	past	Fornarina			day		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Patient
3	have	past	Fornarina				fashioned property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	form			beauty				nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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