Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 178

"And then he looks so splendid!" said the young ladies and the old ladies too; and the oldest of all procured an album for famous locks of hair, wholly and solely that she might beg a lock of his rich splendid hair, that treasure, that golden treasure.

Who acts: name, young ladies, Charlotte · What happens: look, say, procure, beg · To what, where: album, lock · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, young ladies, Charlotte), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 looks	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 looks	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 splendid	advmod
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 splendid	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ladies	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ladies	amod
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ladies	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ladies	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ladies	amod
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ladies	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 procured	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 procured	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oldest	det
22	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 procured	punct
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 all	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 oldest	obl
25	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 album	det
27	album	album	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 procured	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 locks	case
29	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 locks	amod
30	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 procured	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 hair	case
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 locks	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wholly	punct
34	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	25 procured	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 solely	cc
36	solely	solely	ADV	_	34 wholly	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 beg	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 beg	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 beg	aux
40	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wholly	advcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 lock	det
42	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 beg	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 hair	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 hair	nmod:poss
45	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hair	amod
46	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hair	amod
47	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lock	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 treasure	punct
49	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 treasure	det
50	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hair	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 treasure	punct
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 treasure	det
53	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 treasure	amod
54	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 treasure	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	name		then	splendid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past	the young ladies and the old ladies				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	procure	participle	the young ladies and the old ladies not said here	a album		for famous locks of hair; wholly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent album=Theme for lock=Beneficiary
4	beg speech: request	might	Charlotte	a lock of name's rich splendid hair and that treasure and that golden treasure			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lock=Recipient

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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