Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 40
This curl was intended to conceal the blind eye, but it made the defect only more visible.
Who acts: curl · What happens: intend, conceal, make · To what, where: curl, blind eye, defect
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curl), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 curl | det |
| 2 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | aux:pass |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 conceal | mark |
| 6 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intended | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eye | det |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conceal | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 defect | det |
| 15 | defect | defect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 visible | advmod |
| 18 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | this curl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conceal not said to happen | to-infinitive | the blind eye | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | past | curl | the defect | visible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material defect=Product |
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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