Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 7
I beheld her in a splendid ballroom: she was the beautiful bride of a rich merchant.
Who acts: I, daughter · What happens: behold, be · To what, where: daughter, splendid ballroom, beautiful bride
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, daughter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 beheld | nsubj |
| 2 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 beheld | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ballroom | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ballroom | det |
| 6 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ballroom | amod |
| 7 | ballroom | ballroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bride | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bride | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bride | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bride | amod |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 merchant | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 merchant | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 merchant | amod |
| 17 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bride | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | I | daughter | a splendid ballroom | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | daughter | the beautiful bride | of a rich merchant | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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