Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 77
He strove to show them how the beauty of the mind could be displayed in the outward form, and that it was the sculptor's task to seize upon that beauty of expression, and produce it in his works.
Who acts: smile, beauty · What happens: strive, show, display, be, seize, produce · To what, where: copies, beauty, outward form, task, works · 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 (smile, beauty), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 strove | nsubj |
| 2 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 show | mark |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strove | xcomp |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | obj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 displayed | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beauty | det |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 displayed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mind | det |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beauty | nmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 displayed | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 displayed | aux:pass |
| 14 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 show | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 form | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 form | det |
| 17 | outward | outward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 form | amod |
| 18 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 displayed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 task | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 task | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 task | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 task | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 task | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sculptor | det |
| 25 | sculptor | sculptor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 task | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 sculptor | case |
| 27 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strove | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 seize | mark |
| 29 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 task | acl |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 beauty | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 beauty | det |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seize | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 expression | case |
| 34 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beauty | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 produce | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 produce | cc |
| 37 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strove | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 produce | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 works | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 works | nmod:poss |
| 41 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 produce | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | smile | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | smile not said here | copies = copy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | display | could · passive | the beauty of the mind | the outward form | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | beauty | the sculptor's task | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seize | to-infinitive | smile not said here | upon that beauty of expression | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | produce | infinitive | smile not said here | beauty | smile's works | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | |||
| 7 | work | smile | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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