Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 120
All around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains, were a number of strange heads, some very ugly, and others lovely and gentle-looking.
Who acts: peeping · What happens: peep, be, look · To what, where: number
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peeping), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 6 peeping | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 bed | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bed | det |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 peeping | cc |
| 6 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 number | csubj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 curtains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 curtains | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 curtains | amod |
| 10 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 curtains | compound |
| 11 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peeping | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 peeping | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 number | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 number | det |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 heads | case |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heads | amod |
| 18 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 number | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ugly | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 ugly | nsubj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 ugly | advmod |
| 22 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heads | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lovely | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lovely | cc |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lovely | nsubj |
| 26 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 number | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 looking | cc |
| 28 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 looking | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 gentle | punct |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 lovely | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 number | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | gerund | through the long velvet curtains; all property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through curtain=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | peeping | a number | of strange heads | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | peeping not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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