Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 102
The woman examined him with eyes of astonishment, and shook her head; she then addressed him in German.
Who acts: woman · What happens: examine, shake, address · To what, where: Councillor, head, German
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 examined | nsubj |
| 3 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 examined | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 examined | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 astonishment | case |
| 8 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shook | cc |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 examined | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 addressed | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 addressed | nsubj |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 addressed | advmod |
| 17 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 examined | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 addressed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 German | case |
| 20 | German | German | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 addressed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | the woman | Councillor | with eyes of astonishment | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the woman not said here | woman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | address | past | woman | Councillor | German | then | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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