Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 39

"The clay figure was lifelike and beautiful, but it had not the whiteness or the durability of marble.

Who acts: clay figure, figure · What happens: be, have · To what, where: whiteness

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 (clay figure, figure), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 lifelike	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 figure	det
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	compound
4	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifelike	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifelike	cop
6	lifelike	lifelike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 beautiful	cc
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lifelike	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifelike	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 whiteness	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whiteness	det
15	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 durability	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 durability	det
18	durability	durability	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whiteness	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 marble	case
20	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 durability	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifelike	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the clay figure		lifelike property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		the clay figure not said here			tree rules
3	have in a quote	past	figure	the whiteness or the durability of marble		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whiteness=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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