Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 125
"'Pygmalion loved his Galatea,' was in the song they sung at my first wedding," said Alfred; "I once fell in love with a beautiful statue, which awoke to life in my arms; but the kindred soul, which is a gift from heaven, the angel who can feel and sympathize with and elevate us, I have not found and won till now.
Who acts: Pygmalion, Songs, Alfred, beautiful statue, kindred soul, angel · What happens: love, be, sung, say, fall, awake · To what, where: Galatea, song, first wedding, love, arms, gift · 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 (Pygmalion, Songs, Alfred, beautiful statue), 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 loved | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 3 | Pygmalion | Pygmalion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 song | nsubj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Galatea | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Galatea | Galatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 song | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 song | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sung | nsubj |
| 14 | sung | sung | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 song | acl:relcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 wedding | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 wedding | amod |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sung | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sung | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sung | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 fell | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 fell | advmod |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 love | case |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 statue | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 statue | det |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 statue | amod |
| 33 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 awoke | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 awoke | nsubj |
| 36 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 statue | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 awoke | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 arms | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 arms | nmod:poss |
| 41 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 awoke | obl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 soul | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 soul | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 soul | det |
| 45 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 soul | amod |
| 46 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 gift | punct |
| 48 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 gift | nsubj |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 gift | cop |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 gift | det |
| 51 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 soul | appos |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 heaven | case |
| 53 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 gift | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 angel | punct |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 angel | det |
| 56 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 soul | conj |
| 57 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 59 feel | nsubj |
| 58 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 feel | aux |
| 59 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 angel | acl:relcl |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 sympathize | cc |
| 61 | sympathize | sympathize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 feel | conj |
| 62 | with | with | ADP | _ | 61 sympathize | obl |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 elevate | cc |
| 64 | elevate | elevate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 feel | conj |
| 65 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 elevate | obj |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 found | punct |
| 67 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 70 found | nsubj |
| 68 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 70 found | aux |
| 69 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 70 found | advmod |
| 70 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 59 feel | parataxis |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 won | cc |
| 72 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 70 found | conj |
| 73 | till | till | ADP | _ | 74 now | case |
| 74 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 72 won | obl |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | past | Pygmalion | Pygmalion's Galatea | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer galatea=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the song | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sung in a quote | present | Songs = song | the song not said here | my first wedding | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Alfred | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | fall in a quote | past | Alfred | love | with a beautiful statue; once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | |||
| 6 | awake in a quote | past | a beautiful statue | my arms | to life | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | the kindred soul and the angel | a gift | heaven | tree rules | |||
| 8 | feel in a quote | can | the angel | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | sympathize in a quote | infinitive | the angel not said here | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | elevate in a quote | infinitive | the angel not said here | us | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 11 | not find in a quote | present · perfect | Alfred | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 12 | win in a quote | participle | Alfred not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 13 | wed in a quote | my | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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