Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 71
Alfred decided to take a bust of Kaela as well as of her mother.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: decide, take, bust · To what, where: bust, Kaela
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 (Alfred), 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 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decided | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bust | det |
| 6 | bust | bust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kaela | case |
| 8 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bust | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 take | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 mother | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Alfred | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alfred not said here | a bust of Kaela | as Kaela's mother | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bust=Theme as mother=Attribute | |||
| 3 | bust | Kaela | nom bust «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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