Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 30
The top, also, was no longer young; but there came a day when he looked handsomer than ever; for he was gilded all over.
Who acts: top, love · What happens: be, come, look, gild · To what, where: love
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, love), 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 | 9 young | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 top | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 young | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 also | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | cop |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 young | advmod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 came | expl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 looked | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 19 | handsomer | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 handsomer | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gilded | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 gilded | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gilded | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gilded | aux:pass |
| 26 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 over | advmod |
| 28 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 gilded | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the top | long, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | there | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | love | handsome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | gild | past · passive | love | over property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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