Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 49
That smile could not be copied, any more than the look could be reproduced, the wonderful look which she cast upon the young artist.
Who acts: wonderful look · What happens: not copy, reproduce, cast · To what, where: smile, look, young artist
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 (wonderful look), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 smile | det |
| 2 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 copied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 copied | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 copied | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 copied | aux:pass |
| 6 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reproduced | punct |
| 8 | any | any | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 reproduced | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 reproduced | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 look | det |
| 12 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reproduced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 reproduced | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reproduced | aux:pass |
| 15 | reproduced | reproduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 copied | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 look | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | amod |
| 19 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 copied | parataxis |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 cast | nsubj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cast | nsubj |
| 22 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | acl:relcl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 artist | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 artist | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 artist | amod |
| 26 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cast | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 copied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not copy | could · passive | that smile | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reproduce | could · passive | the look | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cast | past | the wonderful look | the young artist | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon artist=Destination |
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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