Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 81
Kaela's beauty had a firm hold on Alfred; it filled his soul, and held a mastery over him.
Who acts: beauty, hold · What happens: have, fill, hold · To what, where: firm hold, Alfred, soul, mastery
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 (beauty, hold), 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 | Kaela | Kaela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kaela | case |
| 3 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hold | det |
| 6 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hold | amod |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Alfred | case |
| 9 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mastery | det |
| 19 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kaela's beauty | a firm hold | Alfred | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | past | hold | Alfred's soul | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soul=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | hold not said here | a mastery | over Alfred | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme over he=Location |
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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