Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 65
Just look at little Miss Glove, how she's pointing her fingers!
Who acts: you, public · What happens: look, point · To what, where: fingers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, public), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Glove | case |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Glove | amod |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Glove | compound |
| 6 | Glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointing | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 pointing | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pointing | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 pointing | aux |
| 11 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Glove | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pointing | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at little Miss Glove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point | present · progressive | public | public's fingers | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
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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