Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 113
But she loved the kind, handsome king, who did everything to make her happy more and more each day; she loved him with all her heart, and her eyes beamed with the love she dared not speak.
Who acts: word, kind handsome king, eyes · What happens: love, do, make, beam, speak · To what, where: kind handsome king, everything, word, king, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (word, kind handsome king, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 loved | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 did | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 did | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 make | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 more | conj |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 more | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 loved | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 loved | nsubj |
| 24 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 loved | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 heart | det:predet |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loved | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 beamed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 beamed | cc |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 beamed | nsubj |
| 34 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 love | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 love | det |
| 37 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 beamed | obl |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 speak | nsubj |
| 39 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 speak | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 dared | advmod |
| 41 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 love | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | word | the kind handsome king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the kind handsome king | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the kind handsome king not said here | word | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | |||
| 4 | love | past | word | king | with word's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | beam | past | word's eyes | with the love | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with love=Theme | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | word | the love not said here | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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