Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 20
She was a study for the sculptor to contemplate, but not to converse with; for she did not speak, or, at least, very seldom.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, contemplate, not converse, not speak · To what, where: study · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 study | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 study | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 study | det |
| 4 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sculptor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sculptor | det |
| 7 | sculptor | sculptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 study | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 contemplate | mark |
| 9 | contemplate | contemplate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sculptor | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 converse | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 converse | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 converse | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 converse | mark |
| 14 | converse | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 study | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 converse | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 speak | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 speak | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 speak | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 speak | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 speak | advmod |
| 21 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 converse | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seldom | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 seldom | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 or | punct |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 least | case |
| 26 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 seldom | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seldom | punct |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 seldom | advmod |
| 29 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 14 converse | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 study | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | daughter | a study | for the sculptor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | contemplate | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not converse speech: other | to-infinitive | daughter not said here | seldom property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | daughter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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