Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 84

He spoke only to her, thought only of her, and the two became one; and so it may be said she spoke much, for he was always talking to her; and he and she were one.

Who acts: Alfred, two, Kaela · What happens: speak, think, become, say, talk, be · To what, where: Kaela, beauty, one · 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 (Alfred, two, Kaela), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 her	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 her	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 became	nsubj
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 became	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	aux:pass
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 spoke	parataxis
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spoke	nsubj
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
26	much	much	ADV	_	25 spoke	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 talking	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 talking	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 talking	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 talking	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 talking	advmod
32	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 spoke	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 talking	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 one	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 one	nsubj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 she	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 he	conj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 one	cop
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 spoke	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Alfred		Kaela		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
2	think speech: other	past				of Kaela	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	the two				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	say speech: assert	may · passive		beauty			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	past	Kaela				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	talk	past · progressive	Alfred		Kaela	always property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
7	is a	past	Alfred	one			tree rules

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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