Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 84

She was more lovely even than before, and thanked him, while her eyes sparkled with tears, for having broken the spell of the magician.

Who acts: princess, eyes · What happens: be, thank, sparkle, have, break, spell · To what, where: John, broken spell, magician

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, eyes), 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	4 lovely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovely	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 lovely	advmod
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	7 before	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	4 lovely	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thanked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thanked	cc
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lovely	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thanked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sparkled	punct
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 sparkled	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sparkled	nsubj
16	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 thanked	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 tears	case
18	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sparkled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 having	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 having	mark
21	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sparkled	advcl
22	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 spell	amod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spell	det
24	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 having	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 magician	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 magician	det
27	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spell	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess			before, lovely property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	past			John		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	sparkle	participle	princess's eyes			with tears	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with tear=Theme
4	have	gerund	princess's eyes not said here	the broken spell of the magician			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
5	break	participle					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	spell			the magician			nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

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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