Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 45
These were casts of the bodily and mental deformities of the lady's female friends carefully preserved.
What happens: be, preserve · To what, where: casts, female friends
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 casts | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 casts | cop |
| 3 | casts | cast | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 deformities | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deformities | det |
| 6 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deformities | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 mental | cc |
| 8 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bodily | conj |
| 9 | deformities | deformity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 casts | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 lady | case |
| 14 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deformities | nmod |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 17 preserved | advmod |
| 17 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 friends | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 casts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this casts | of the bodily deformities of the lady's female friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | preserve | participle | the lady's female friends not said here | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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