Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 54
He would even tease little Gerda, who loved him with all her heart.
Who acts: glass, little Gerda · What happens: tease, love · To what, where: 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 (glass, little Gerda), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tease | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tease | aux |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 tease | advmod |
| 4 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Gerda | amod |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loved | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tease | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loved | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 heart | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | would | glass | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | love | past | little Gerda | glass | with heart's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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