Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 126
He could play, fresh out of his heart, the most charming pieces, that had never been put upon music-paper.
Who acts: hair · What happens: play, not put · To what, where: that, music paper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 play | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 play | aux |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fresh | punct |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 play | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 heart | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fresh | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pieces | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pieces | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 pieces | advmod |
| 13 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pieces | compound |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heart | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | aux |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 put | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 put | aux:pass |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pieces | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 paper | case |
| 22 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 paper | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 music | punct |
| 24 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | could | hair | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not put | past · perfect · passive | that | music paper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon paper=Destination |
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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