Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 121

She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry again, marry Sophy, who was nothing at all to look at. "

Who acts: Kaela, Alfred, Sophy · What happens: experience, see, marry, be, look · To what, where: grief, Alfred, Sophy, nothing, all

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, Alfred, Sophy), 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	5 experience	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 experience	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 experience	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 experience	mark
5	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 grief	det
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experience	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 seeing	mark
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 experience	advcl
10	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seeing	obj
11	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seeing	xcomp
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 marry	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marry	punct
14	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 experience	conj
15	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marry	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nothing	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 nothing	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 nothing	cop
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 Sophy	appos
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 nothing	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	acl
24	at	at	ADP	_	23 look	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 experience	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 experience	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	experience	past	Kaela	another grief			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grief=Stimulus
2	see	gerund	Kaela not said here	Alfred			tree rules
3	marry	infinitive	Alfred not said here			again	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	marry	infinitive	Kaela not said here	Sophy			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sophy=Patient
5	is a	past	Sophy	nothing	all		tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	Kaela not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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