Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 28
The flame was as a star on his breast, and added another heart to the Danish arms.
Who acts: flame · What happens: be, add · To what, where: breast, heart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:3680): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flame | det |
| 2 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 star | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 star | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 star | det |
| 6 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 breast | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 star | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 added | cc |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 star | conj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 heart | det |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arms | det |
| 17 | Danish | Danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arms | amod |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 added | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 star | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the flame | Denmark's breast | as a star | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the flame not said here | another heart | to the Danish arms | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to arm=Co-Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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