Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 118
A beauty ought to be perfect, and Kaela was a perfect beauty."
Who acts: beauty, Kaela · What happens: be · To what, where: perfect beauty
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 (beauty, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beauty | det |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perfect | nsubj |
| 3 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 perfect | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 perfect | cop |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beauty | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beauty | cc |
| 9 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 beauty | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beauty | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beauty | det |
| 12 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perfect | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | ought | a beauty | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Kaela | a perfect beauty | tree rules |
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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