Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 51
Gladly would she have taken the body home with her; but that was impossible; so she took up the poor head with the closed eyes, kissed the cold lips, and shook the mould out of the beautiful hair.
Who acts: girl, that · What happens: take, be, take up, close, kiss, shake · To what, where: body, poor head, cold lips, mould, beautiful hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that), 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 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taken | aux |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 impossible | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 body | det |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 taken | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 impossible | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 impossible | cc |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 impossible | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 impossible | cop |
| 15 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 took | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 impossible | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 head | amod |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 eyes | det |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 head | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 kissed | punct |
| 29 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 lips | det |
| 31 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lips | amod |
| 32 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kissed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shook | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 shook | cc |
| 35 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mould | det |
| 37 | mould | mould | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shook | obj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 hair | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 hair | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 hair | det |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hair | amod |
| 42 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 shook | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | would · perfect | girl | the body | with dream; gladly, home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | that | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | girl | the poor head | with the closed eyes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | kiss | past | girl not said here | the cold lips | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | shake | past | girl not said here | the mould | the beautiful hair | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mould=Theme out hair=Trajectory |
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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