Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 157
But the song was not done; there were many more verses in it, long verses, the most beautiful verses, the golden treasures of a life.
Who acts: many more verses · What happens: not do, be, treasure · To what, where: song, life
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 (many more verses), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 done | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 done | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 were | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 were | expl |
| 9 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 verses | amod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 verses | amod |
| 12 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 were | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 verses | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 verses | punct |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 verses | amod |
| 17 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 verses | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 verses | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 verses | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 verses | amod |
| 22 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 verses | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 treasures | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 treasures | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 treasures | amod |
| 26 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 verses | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 life | det |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 treasures | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past · passive | the song | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | be | past | many more verses in song | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | treasure | a life | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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