Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 53
But it was the piece of glass in his eye, and the coldness in his heart, that made him act like this.
Who acts: genius, that, glass · What happens: be, make, act · To what, where: piece, glass
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 (genius, that, glass), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 piece | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 piece | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 piece | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eye | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eye | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coldness | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coldness | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coldness | det |
| 14 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coldness | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coldness | advcl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obj |
| 22 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 made | xcomp |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 this | case |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 act | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | genius | the piece and the coldness in glass's heart | of glass in glass's eye | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | that | glass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | act | infinitive | glass not said here | like this | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like this=Attribute |
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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