The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 48
The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they did all they could to comfort him.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: melt, do, comfort · To what, where: hearts, all, boy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts), 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 hearts | det |
| 2 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 elves | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elves | det |
| 5 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearts | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | aux:pass |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 melted | advmod |
| 8 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 melted | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 comfort | mark |
| 17 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 did | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 comfort | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 melted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | past · passive | the hearts of the elves | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | do | past | hearts = heart | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | comfort | to-infinitive | hearts = heart not said here | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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