Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 114
She was also a generous-hearted, faithful girl; she showed that thoroughly while Kaela lay sick, fading away.
Who acts: Sophy, Kaela · What happens: be, show, lie, fade away · To what, where: hearted faithful girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sophy, Kaela), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 girl | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 5 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 generous | punct |
| 7 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearted | punct |
| 9 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 girl | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 15 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 18 lay | advmod |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 lay | mark |
| 17 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 18 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 showed | ccomp |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lay | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fading | punct |
| 21 | fading | fade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 lay | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 fading | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sophy | a hearted faithful girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Sophy | a hearted faithful girl not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | Kaela | sick, thoroughly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fade away | gerund | Kaela not said here | away property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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