Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 45
She appeared to him so lovely that he could not help loving her.
Who acts: princess, face · What happens: appear, not help, love · To what, where: face, princess
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 (princess, face), 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 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appeared | obl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 lovely | advmod |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 appeared | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 help | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 help | advmod |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lovely | advcl |
| 12 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 help | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loving | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | princess | face | lovely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not help | could | face | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | love not said to happen | gerund | face not said here | princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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