Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 18

The mother was like a fountain of questions; and the daughter, who listened but never spoke, might have passed for the beautiful maid of the fountain.

Who acts: mother, daughter · What happens: be, listen, not speak, pass · 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 (mother, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fountain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fountain	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 fountain	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fountain	det
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 questions	case
8	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fountain	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 daughter	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 daughter	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 daughter	det
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fountain	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 listened	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 listened	nsubj
15	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 daughter	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 spoke	advmod
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 listened	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passed	punct
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 passed	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 passed	aux
22	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fountain	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 maid	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 maid	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 maid	amod
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fountain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fountain	det
29	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fountain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mother	like a fountain and the daughter; of questions	tree rules
2	listen	past	the daughter		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	past	the daughter not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pass	might · perfect	the mother not said here	for the beautiful maid of the fountain	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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