Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 28

The delicate folded hands and the noble face glorified in death by the solemn, earnest look, which spoke of an entrance into a better world, were alone visible.

Who acts: solemn earnest look, delicate folded hands · What happens: fold, glorify, speak, be · To what, where: noble face, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (solemn earnest look, delicate folded hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4963): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hands	det
2	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
3	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 visible	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 face	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 face	det
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	amod
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hands	conj
9	glorified	glorify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 face	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 death	case
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glorified	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	17 look	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 look	det
14	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 look	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 earnest	punct
16	earnest	earnest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 look	amod
17	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glorified	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 look	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 entrance	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 entrance	det
23	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 world	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 world	det
26	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 world	amod
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 entrance	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hands	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 visible	cop
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	31 visible	advmod
31	visible	visible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 visible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fold	participle					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	glorify	participle		the noble face not said here	death	by the solemn earnest look	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	the solemn earnest look			of a entrance into a better world	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the delicate folded hands and the noble face			alone, visible property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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