Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 27

Mr. Alfred again spoke of Italy, and of the glorious colors in Italian scenery; the purple hills, the deep blue of the Mediterranean, the azure of southern skies, whose brightness and glory could only be surpassed in the north by the deep-blue eyes of a maiden; and he said this with a peculiar intonation; but she who should have understood his meaning looked quite unconscious of it, which also was charming.

Who acts: Mr., blue eyes, meaning, unconscious · What happens: speak, surpass, say, understand, look, charm · To what, where: purple hills, this, pope, unconscious · 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 (Mr., blue eyes, meaning, unconscious), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
2	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr.	flat
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Italy	case
6	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 colors	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 colors	cc
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 colors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colors	det
11	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 colors	amod
12	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 scenery	case
14	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 scenery	amod
15	scenery	scenery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colors	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hills	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hills	det
18	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hills	amod
19	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 surpassed	nsubj:pass
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blue	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blue	det
22	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blue	amod
23	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hills	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Mediterranean	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mediterranean	det
26	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 blue	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 azure	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 azure	det
29	azure	azure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hills	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 skies	case
31	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 skies	amod
32	skies	sky	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 azure	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 brightness	punct
34	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 brightness	nmod:poss
35	brightness	brightness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hills	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 glory	cc
37	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brightness	conj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 surpassed	aux
39	only	only	ADV	_	41 surpassed	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 surpassed	aux:pass
41	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 colors	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 north	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 north	det
44	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 surpassed	obl
45	by	by	ADP	_	50 eyes	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 eyes	det
47	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 blue	amod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 deep	punct
49	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 eyes	amod
50	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 surpassed	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 maiden	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 maiden	det
53	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eyes	nmod
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 said	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 said	cc
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 said	nsubj
57	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
58	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 said	obj
59	with	with	ADP	_	62 intonation	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 intonation	det
61	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 intonation	compound
62	intonation	intonation	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 said	obl
63	;	;	PUNCT	_	69 understood	punct
64	but	but	CCONJ	_	69 understood	cc
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 understood	nsubj
66	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 understood	nsubj:pass
67	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 understood	aux
68	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	69 understood	aux
69	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spoke	ccomp
70	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 meaning	nmod:poss
71	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 looked	nsubj
72	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 understood	parataxis
73	quite	quite	ADV	_	74 unconscious	advmod
74	unconscious	unconscious	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 looked	obj
75	of	of	ADP	_	76 it	case
76	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 unconscious	nmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 charming	punct
78	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	81 charming	nsubj
79	also	also	ADV	_	81 charming	advmod
80	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 charming	aux
81	charming	charm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	74 unconscious	conj
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Mr.		again	of Italy; of the glorious colors in Italian scenery	tree rules
2	surpass	could · passive	the blue eyes of a maiden	the purple hills the deep blue of the Mediterranean and the azure of southern skies and the purple hills the deep blue of the Mediterranean and the azure of southern skies and the purple hills's brightness and glory's brightness and glory		in the north	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme in north=Attribute
3	say speech: assert	past	Mr.	this		with a peculiar intonation	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent this=Theme with intonation=Manner
4	understand	should · perfect · passive		pope			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	look	past	Mr.'s meaning	unconscious of unconscious			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unconscious=Attribute
6	charm	past · progressive	unconscious of unconscious				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	mean		Mr.				nom meaning «communication 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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