Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 18
You should have seen her in her dumb terror, with her face as white as chalk, her mouth half open, and her eyes fixed in a horrified stare.
Who acts: You · What happens: see, fix, horrify · To what, where: mother, dumb terror, eyes, horrified stare
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | aux |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 terror | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 terror | amod |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 face | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 white | advmod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 chalk | case |
| 17 | chalk | chalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 white | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mouth | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 21 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 open | advmod |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fixed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fixed | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seen | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 stare | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 stare | det |
| 30 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 stare | amod |
| 31 | stare | stare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fixed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should · perfect | You | mother | mother's dumb terror | with mother's face and mother's mouth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | fix | participle · passive | mother's eyes | a horrified stare | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | horrify | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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