Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 117
"She was beautiful," said her mother; "she was quite different from the beauties they call 'antiques,' for they are so damaged.
Who acts: Kaela, mother, galleries · What happens: be, say, call, damage · To what, where: beauties, antiques, galleries · 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 (Kaela, mother, galleries), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 different | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 different | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 different | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 different | cop |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 different | advmod |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 beauties | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beauties | det |
| 18 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 different | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 beauties | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 call | case |
| 22 | antiques | antique | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 call | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 beauties | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 beauties | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 damaged | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 damaged | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 damaged | aux:pass |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 damaged | advmod |
| 29 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 different | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Kaela | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kaela's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Kaela | the beauties | different property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | galleries = gallery | antiques | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beauty=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | damage in a quote | present · passive | galleries = gallery | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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