Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 44

The top said nothing, but he thought of his old love; and the more she said, the more clear it became to him that this was the same ball.

Who acts: top, place, gilding, roof, this · What happens: say, think, become, be, love · To what, where: nothing, place, same ball · 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, place, gilding, roof), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 love	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 love	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 love	amod
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thought	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 more	det
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 said	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clear	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 clear	det
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 clear	advmod
22	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 became	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 ball	mark
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 ball	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ball	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ball	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ball	amod
32	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the top	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	place			of place's old love	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	gilding				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	become	past	roof		place		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is a	past	this	the same ball			tree rules
6	love		place				nom love «feeling 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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