Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 40
Those deep-blue eyes, which had been lit up this evening in honor of him, must conceal treasures, treasures of heart and mind, richer than all the glories of Rome; and so when he left the party that night, he had lost it completely to the young lady.
Who acts: blue eyes, meaning, Rome · What happens: lit up, conceal, leave, lose, honor, treasure · To what, where: blue eyes, treasures, party, meaning, heart
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 (blue eyes, meaning, Rome), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 eyes | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blue | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 deep | punct |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eyes | amod |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 conceal | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lit | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lit | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lit | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 lit | aux:pass |
| 10 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lit | compound:prt |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lit | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 honor | case |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 evening | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 honor | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 conceal | aux |
| 20 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 conceal | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 treasures | punct |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 treasures | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 treasures | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mind | cc |
| 27 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heart | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 richer | punct |
| 29 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 conceal | parataxis |
| 30 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 glories | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 glories | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 glories | det |
| 33 | glories | glory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 richer | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Rome | case |
| 35 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 glories | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 left | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 so | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 left | advmod |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 left | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 left | nsubj |
| 41 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 conceal | parataxis |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 party | det |
| 43 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 left | obj |
| 44 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 night | det |
| 45 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 left | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 conceal | punct |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 lost | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 lost | aux |
| 49 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 conceal | parataxis |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 lost | obj |
| 51 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 49 lost | advmod |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 lady | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 lady | det |
| 54 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 lady | amod |
| 55 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lost | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 conceal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit up | past · perfect · passive | that blue eyes | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conceal | must | that blue eyes | treasures and treasures of heart and mind | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | meaning | the party | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | meaning | party | to the young lady; completely property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | honor | meaning | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | treasure | heart and mind | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | glory | Rome | 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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