Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 88
Pygmalion loved his Galatea," said one of the songs.
Who acts: Pygmalion, Galatea · What happens: love, say · 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 (Pygmalion, Galatea), 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 | Pygmalion | Pygmalion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Galatea | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Galatea | Galatea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Galatea | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Galatea | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | parataxis |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 songs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 songs | det |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Pygmalion | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Pygmalion's Galatea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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