Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 62

The chisel struck great fragments from it; the measurements were taken, points and lines were made, the mechanical part was executed, till gradually the stone assumed a human female form, a shape of beauty, and became converted into the Psyche, fair and glorious--a divine being in human shape.

Who acts: chisel, stone · What happens: strike, take, make, execute, assume, convert · To what, where: great fragments, life, measurements, lines, mechanical part, human female form

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 (chisel, stone), 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	2 chisel	det
2	chisel	chisel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fragments	amod
5	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 struck	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 struck	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 taken	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 measurements	det
10	measurements	measurement	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 taken	aux:pass
12	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 struck	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 points	punct
14	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taken	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 taken	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 executed	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 part	det
21	mechanical	mechanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 part	amod
22	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 executed	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 executed	aux:pass
24	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 taken	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 assumed	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 assumed	mark
27	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	30 assumed	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stone	det
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 assumed	nsubj
30	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 executed	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 form	det
32	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 form	amod
33	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 form	amod
34	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 assumed	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 shape	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 shape	det
37	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 form	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 beauty	case
39	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shape	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 converted	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 converted	cc
42	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 converted	aux:pass
43	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 struck	conj
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 Psyche	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Psyche	det
46	Psyche	psyche	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 converted	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fair	punct
48	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Psyche	amod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 glorious	cc
50	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fair	conj
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	53 divine	punct
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 divine	det
53	divine	divine	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 Psyche	conj
54	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 divine	acl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 shape	case
56	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 shape	amod
57	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 being	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the chisel	great fragments	life		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Patient
2	take	past · passive		the measurements			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme point=Destination
3	make	past · passive		lines			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	execute	past · passive		the mechanical part			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	assume	past	the stone	a human female form		gradually property	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
6	convert	past · passive	the chisel not said here			into the Psyche and a divine result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into psyche=Result

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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