Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 10
Love was to her as yet only a pastime, and she played with Rudy's whole heart.
Who acts: Love, she · What happens: be, play · To what, where: pastime
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Love, she), 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 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pastime | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pastime | cop |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 was | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 yet | case |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 pastime | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 pastime | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pastime | det |
| 9 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 played | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 played | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 played | nsubj |
| 13 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pastime | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 15 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Rudy | case |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 played | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pastime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Love | a pastime | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | past | she | with Rudy's whole heart | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with heart=Theme |
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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