Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 8
I still see the bold smile on their lips, that so strongly and plainly expressed joy or grief.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, express · To what, where: bold smile, lips
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smile | det |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smile | amod |
| 6 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 smile | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strongly | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 strongly | nsubj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 strongly | advmod |
| 13 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 6 smile | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 joy | cc |
| 15 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 16 expressed | advmod |
| 16 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 joy | amod |
| 17 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strongly | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 grief | cc |
| 19 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joy | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | the bold smile | worms's lips | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smile=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | express | participle | plainly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: 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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