Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 72
They sat to him accordingly, and saw how he moulded and formed the soft clay with his fingers.
Who acts: lips, Alfred · What happens: sit, see, mould, form · To what, where: Alfred, soft clay · 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 (lips, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | obl |
| 5 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 moulded | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moulded | nsubj |
| 11 | moulded | mould | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 formed | cc |
| 13 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 clay | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 clay | amod |
| 16 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 formed | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fingers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 formed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | lips = lip | Alfred | accordingly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | lips = lip not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mould | past | Alfred | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | form | past | lips = lip not said here | the soft clay | with Alfred's fingers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clay=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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