Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 25

On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an almond stuck in to represent it, but the maiden was honey cake all over.

Who acts: heart, gingerbread man, maiden · What happens: be, have, stick in, represent · To what, where: almond, left, honey cake

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, gingerbread man, maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:13833): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 left	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 left	det
3	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 is	advmod
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 is	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heart	det
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 had	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	compound
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 almond	det
16	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 almond	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 stuck	compound:prt
19	to	to	PART	_	20 represent	mark
20	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stuck	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 represent	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cake	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 cake	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cake	det
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cake	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cake	cop
27	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cake	compound
28	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	conj
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 over	advmod
30	over	over	ADV	_	28 cake	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	the heart				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the gingerbread man	a almond	the left		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent almond=Patient
3	stick in	participle		a almond not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	represent	to-infinitive		almond			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
5	is a	past	maiden	the honey cake		over property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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