Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 5
The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tears in the man's eyes, for he had been hissed off, and indeed with reason.
Who acts: knighly beard, tears · What happens: curl, be, hiss off · To what, where: beard
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 (knighly beard, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:7110): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beard | det |
| 2 | knighly | knighly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beard | amod |
| 3 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | nsubj |
| 4 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | crisply | crisply | ADV | _ | 4 curled | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 chin | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chin | det |
| 8 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curled | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 were | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 curled | conj |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 man | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tears | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hissed | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 hissed | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hissed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hissed | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 hissed | aux:pass |
| 24 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 were | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 hissed | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 reason | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reason | cc |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 30 reason | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 reason | case |
| 30 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hissed | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl | past | the knighly beard | about the chin; crisply property | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | tears in the man's eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hiss off | past · perfect · passive | beard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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