Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 26
It was only of these that she thought when the clergyman laid his hand upon her head and spoke of the holy baptism, of the covenant with God, and told her that she was now to be a grown-up Christian.
Who acts: Karen, clergyman · What happens: be, think, lay, speak, tell, grow up · To what, where: hand, head, Karen, grown Christian · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, clergyman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10407): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 these | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 these | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 these | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 these | acl:relcl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 laid | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clergyman | det |
| 11 | clergyman | clergyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spoke | cc |
| 19 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 baptism | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 baptism | det |
| 22 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 baptism | amod |
| 23 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spoke | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 covenant | punct |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 covenant | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 covenant | det |
| 27 | covenant | covenant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 baptism | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 God | case |
| 29 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 covenant | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 told | cc |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laid | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 was | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 was | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 told | ccomp |
| 37 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 was | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 Christian | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 Christian | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 Christian | det |
| 41 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 Christian | amod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 up | punct |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 grown | compound:prt |
| 44 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 was | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 these | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | of these | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Karen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | the clergyman | clergyman's hand | Karen's head | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | the clergyman not said here | of the holy baptism and the covenant with God | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the clergyman not said here | Karen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | be | past | Karen | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | is a | to-infinitive | Karen not said here | a grown Christian | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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