Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 43
Poor little Kay had also received a small grain in his heart, which very quickly turned to a lump of ice.
Who acts: Poor little Kay · What happens: receive, turn · To what, where: small grain, heart, lump
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor little Kay), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Kay | amod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Kay | amod |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 received | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | aux |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 received | advmod |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 grain | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grain | amod |
| 9 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 quickly | advmod |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heart | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 lump | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lump | det |
| 20 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ice | case |
| 22 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lump | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · perfect | Poor little Kay | a small grain | glass's heart | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grain=Theme in heart=Location | |||
| 2 | turn | participle · passive | glass's heart | a lump of ice | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to lump=Trajectory |
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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