Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 99
He forgot her ugly form, and only thought how the mercy and loving-kindness of the Almighty was acting through this hideous apparition.
Who acts: handsomest, mercy, figure · What happens: forget, think, act, form · To what, where: ugly form, hideous apparition
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 (handsomest, mercy, figure), 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 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 form | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 forgot | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 thought | advmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forgot | conj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 acting | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mercy | det |
| 12 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 acting | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kindness | cc |
| 14 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kindness | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 loving | punct |
| 16 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mercy | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Almighty | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Almighty | det |
| 19 | Almighty | almighty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindness | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 acting | aux |
| 21 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 apparition | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 apparition | det |
| 24 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 apparition | amod |
| 25 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 acting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | handsomest = handsome | figure's ugly form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | handsomest = handsome not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | act | past · progressive | the mercy and loving kindness of the Almighty | this hideous apparition | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | form | figure | 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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