Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 82
No hymn of supplication, no holy chant, could melt his soul like the sound of her voice.
Who acts: hymn, supplication · What happens: melt, hymn · To what, where: soul
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 (hymn, supplication), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 hymn | det |
| 2 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 melt | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 supplication | case |
| 4 | supplication | supplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hymn | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chant | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 chant | det |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chant | amod |
| 8 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hymn | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hymn | punct |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 melt | aux |
| 11 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 soul | nmod:poss |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 melt | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 melt | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sound | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 melt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | could | no hymn of supplication and no holy chant | Providence's soul | like the sound of marble's voice | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient soul=Result | |||
| 2 | hymn | supplication | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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