Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 50
But a beautiful speech was made by the mother-snail.
Who acts: mother snail · What happens: make · To what, where: beautiful speech
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother snail), 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 made | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 speech | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speech | amod |
| 4 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 snail | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snail | det |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snail | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 mother | punct |
| 11 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the mother snail | a beautiful speech | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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