Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 122
He's gone to the very extreme," said mamma-in-law; "he has gone from the most beautiful to the ugliest, and he has forgotten his first wife.
Who acts: Alfred, mamma · What happens: go, say, forget · To what, where: extreme, beautiful, first wife · 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 (Alfred, mamma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 extreme | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 extreme | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 extreme | advmod |
| 7 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 extreme | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 extreme | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 extreme | conj |
| 11 | mamma | mamma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mamma | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 beautiful | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beautiful | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gone | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 ugliest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ugliest | det |
| 27 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forgotten | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 forgotten | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forgotten | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 forgotten | aux |
| 32 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gone | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 wife | amod |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forgotten | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · passive | Alfred | the extreme | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to extreme=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | mamma and law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | Alfred | the beautiful | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from beautiful=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | forget | present · perfect | Alfred | Alfred's first wife | 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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