Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 13
They had named her Helga, which was rather too soft a name for a child with a temper like hers, although her form was still beautiful.
Who acts: Helga, form, child · What happens: name, be, form · To what, where: storks
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga, form, child), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Helga | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 soft | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 soft | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 soft | cop |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 11 soft | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 soft | advmod |
| 11 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Helga | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soft | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soft | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 temper | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 temper | det |
| 19 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 child | nmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 hers | case |
| 21 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 temper | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 beautiful | punct |
| 23 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 beautiful | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 form | nmod:poss |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beautiful | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 beautiful | cop |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 named | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · perfect · passive | storks = stork | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | her Helga | for a child with a temper like child; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | child's form | still | beautiful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | form | child | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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