Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 126
You came, Sophy, not in the glory of outward beauty, though you are even fairer than is necessary.
Who acts: You, outward beauty · What happens: come, be, glory · To what, where: Sophy, glory
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 (You, outward beauty), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sophy | punct |
| 4 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glory | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 glory | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 glory | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 glory | det |
| 9 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beauty | amod |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glory | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fairer | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 fairer | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 fairer | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fairer | cop |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 fairer | advmod |
| 18 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 came | parataxis |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 necessary | mark |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 necessary | cop |
| 21 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fairer | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | You | Sophy | the glory of outward beauty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glory=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glory | outward beauty | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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