Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 18
Again I saw the well-remembered face, with the painted cheeks and the crisp beard.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, remember, paint · To what, where: remembered face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth 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), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 face | amod |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cheeks | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cheeks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cheeks | det |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cheeks | amod |
| 13 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 beard | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beard | det |
| 16 | crisp | crisp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beard | amod |
| 17 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheeks | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | the remembered face | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remember | participle | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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