Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 27

She possessed beauty enough--nobody could be more elegant or prettier than she was; but what of that? for she was a wicked witch; and in consequence of her conduct many noble young princes had lost their lives.

Who acts: Heaven, nobody · What happens: possess, be, lose, conduct · To what, where: beauty, many noble young princes, consequence

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, nobody), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 possessed	nsubj
2	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 possessed	obj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 possessed	advmod
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	10 elegant	punct
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 elegant	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 elegant	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 elegant	cop
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 elegant	advmod
10	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 possessed	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 prettier	cc
12	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 elegant	conj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prettier	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 possessed	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 what	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	27 witch	case
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 witch	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 witch	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 witch	det
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 witch	amod
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 what	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 lost	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lost	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 consequence	case
31	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lost	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 conduct	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 conduct	nmod:poss
34	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 consequence	nmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 princes	amod
36	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 princes	amod
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 princes	amod
38	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lost	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lost	aux
40	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 possessed	conj
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 lives	nmod:poss
42	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lost	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	past	Heaven	beauty		enough property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beauty=Theme
2	is	could	nobody			elegant property	tree rules
3	be		nobody not said here				tree rules
4	be	past	Heaven				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Heaven			for a wicked witch	tree rules
6	lose	past · perfect · passive		many noble young princes	consequence of Heaven's conduct		tree rules
7	conduct		Heaven				nom conduct «act 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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