Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 174

A golden treasure had been hidden in the heart and soul of the poor child, who had beaten the roll as a drummer--a roll of victory for those who had been ready to retreat.

Who acts: poor child · What happens: hide, beat, be, retreat, roll · To what, where: golden treasure, heart, roll, victory

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 (poor child), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 treasure	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 treasure	amod
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hidden	aux:pass
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 heart	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 heart	det
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hidden	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 soul	cc
11	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heart	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 child	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 child	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soul	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beaten	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 beaten	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 beaten	aux
19	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 child	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roll	det
21	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beaten	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 drummer	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 drummer	det
24	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roll	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 roll	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 roll	det
27	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heart	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 victory	case
29	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 roll	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 those	case
31	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 roll	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 ready	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ready	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 ready	cop
35	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 those	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 retreat	mark
37	retreat	retreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ready	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect · passive		a golden treasure	the heart and soul of the poor child and a roll of victory for those		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in heart=Location
2	beat	past · perfect	the poor child	the roll		as a drummer	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roll=Theme
3	is	past · perfect				ready property	tree rules
4	retreat	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	roll			victory		for those	nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient for=obl

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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