Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 11
Her feet were bare, her short frock and her white sleeves were torn.
Who acts: feet · What happens: be, tear · To what, where: white sleeves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bare | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bare | cop |
| 4 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frock | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 frock | nmod:poss |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frock | amod |
| 8 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bare | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 torn | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sleeves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sleeves | amod |
| 12 | sleeves | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 torn | aux:pass |
| 14 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bare | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beam's feet | beam's short frock obl; bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tear | past · passive | beam's white sleeves | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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