Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 133

And full of life was this young stranger; his eyes sparkled, his glance was steady, and his arm sure, therefore he always hit the mark.

Who acts: young stranger, eyes, glance, Rudy · What happens: be, sparkle, hit, glance · To what, where: mark

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young stranger, eyes, glance, Rudy), 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:pg27200:4243): 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 full	cc
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 full	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 full	cop
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 stranger	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stranger	amod
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 full	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sparkled	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sparkled	nsubj
12	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 full	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 steady	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 glance	nmod:poss
15	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 steady	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 steady	cop
17	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sparkled	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sure	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arm	nmod:poss
21	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sure	nsubj
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sparkled	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hit	punct
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	27 hit	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hit	nsubj
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 hit	advmod
27	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sparkled	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mark	det
29	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hit	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this young stranger		of life; full property	tree rules
2	sparkle	past	Rudy's eyes			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Rudy's glance		steady property	tree rules
4	hit	past	Rudy	the mark	always, therefore property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mark=Co-Theme
5	glance		Rudy			nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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: 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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