Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 133
It seemed too much for him to bear; and this happened not once, but many times; and at last one day he seized the delicate fingers and the white hand, and kissed it, and looked into her great brown eyes.
Who acts: It, heart, this · What happens: seem, bear, not happen, seize, kiss, look · To what, where: much, delicate fingers, hand
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 (It, heart, this), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seemed | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 much | acl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happened | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 happened | advmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 happened | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 times | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 times | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 seized | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 seized | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 day | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | compound |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seized | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seized | nsubj |
| 26 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fingers | det |
| 28 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fingers | amod |
| 29 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 seized | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hand | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hand | det |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hand | amod |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fingers | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kissed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 kissed | cc |
| 36 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seized | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 kissed | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 looked | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 looked | cc |
| 40 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 eyes | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 eyes | amod |
| 44 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 eyes | amod |
| 45 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 looked | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | much | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive | heart | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not happen | past | this | time | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | seize | past | heart | the delicate fingers and the white hand | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 5 | kiss | past | heart not said here | hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | look | past | into Charlotte's great brown eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
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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