Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 4

There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! '

Who acts: happiness · What happens: stand, stretch, beam · To what, where: little maid, arms, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stiff	punct
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 upright	cc
9	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stiff	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 doll	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doll	det
12	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stiff	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretched	punct
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stretched	nsubj:pass
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
17	painfully	painfully	ADV	_	16 stretched	advmod
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 out	advmod
19	out	out	ADV	_	20 away	advmod
20	away	away	ADV	_	16 stretched	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 dress	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dress	det
23	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 away	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fingers	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fingers	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fingers	nmod:poss
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
28	apart	apart	ADV	_	27 fingers	advmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 what	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 what	cc
31	oh	oh	INTJ	_	33 what	discourse
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 oh	punct
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 stood	parataxis
34	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 beamed	nsubj
35	beamed	beam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 what	acl:relcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 eyes	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 eyes	nmod:poss
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 beamed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 countenance	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 countenance	cc
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 countenance	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 countenance	nmod:poss
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 countenance	amod
44	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	44 countenance	punct
46	'	'	PUNCT	_	44 countenance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		the little maid	there	bride's fingers obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus
2	stretch	participle · passive		bride's arms		away, painfully property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	beam	past	happiness		bride's eyes		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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