Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 28

The top still twirled about and hummed, but he continued to think of the ball; and the more he thought of her, the more beautiful she seemed to his fancy.

Who acts: top, boy, bird · What happens: twirl, hum, continue, think, seem, fancy · To what, where: top · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top, boy, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 top	det
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hummed	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 twirled	advmod
4	twirled	twirl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 top	acl
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 hummed	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hummed	cc
7	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continued	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 continued	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 continued	nsubj
11	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hummed	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 think	mark
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 continued	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ball	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ball	det
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 more	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 more	det
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 thought	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hummed	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beautiful	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beautiful	det
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 beautiful	advmod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thought	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 beautiful	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 fancy	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fancy	nmod:poss
33	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hummed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	twirl	participle		the top not said here	still		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	hum	past	the top			about property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
3	continue	past	boy				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	boy not said here			of the ball	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	boy			of bird	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seem	past	bird			to boy's fancy	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	fancy		boy				nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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