Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 93
The magic of form had enchanted him; he had looked at the casket without caring to inquire what it contained, and that omission often brings the greatest unhappiness into married life.
Who acts: proverb, magic, omission · What happens: enchant, look, care, inquire, contain, bring · To what, where: magic, greatest unhappiness, married life
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 (proverb, magic, omission), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magic | det |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 form | case |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magic | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | aux |
| 6 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enchanted | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | aux |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 enchanted | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 casket | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 casket | det |
| 14 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 caring | mark |
| 16 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 looked | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 inquire | mark |
| 18 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 caring | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 inquire | obj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 contained | nsubj |
| 21 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brings | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brings | cc |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 omission | det |
| 25 | omission | omission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brings | nsubj |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 brings | advmod |
| 27 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 enchanted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 unhappiness | det |
| 29 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 unhappiness | amod |
| 30 | unhappiness | unhappiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brings | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 32 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 life | amod |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brings | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past · perfect · passive | the magic of form | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | |||||
| 2 | look | past · perfect | proverb | at the casket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at casket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | care | gerund | proverb not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | proverb not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | contain | past | magic | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | bring | present | that omission | the greatest unhappiness | married life | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent unhappiness=Theme into life=Destination |
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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