Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 45

And sure enough the most beautiful stories and poetry were written upon it, and only once was there a blot, which was very fortunate.

Who acts: blot · What happens: write, be · To what, where: beautiful stories, there

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blot), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 sure	cc
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 sure	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 beautiful	advmod
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	amod
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 written	nsubj:pass
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 poetry	cc
9	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stories	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 written	aux:pass
11	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sure	ccomp
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 written	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blot	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blot	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 once	advmod
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 blot	advmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 there	cop
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 once	expl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 blot	det
21	blot	blot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sure	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fortunate	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fortunate	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fortunate	cop
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 fortunate	advmod
26	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blot	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	write	past · passive		the beautiful stories and poetry	upon poetry	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	past		there		tree rules
3	is	past	a blot		fortunate 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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