Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 21
And the magician who had no name looked through the magnifying-glass.
Who acts: magician · What happens: have, look, magnify · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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:pg27200:1475): 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magician | acl:relcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 glass | det |
| 11 | magnifying | magnify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 glass | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 magnifying | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the magician | no name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the magician | through the magnifying glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | magnify | gerund | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: 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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