Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 61
The little girl had brown eyes and black hair, and was clever and courageous; she was the mayor's daughter, Molly.
Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: have, be · To what, where: brown eyes, daughter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hair | cc |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hair | amod |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clever | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clever | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 clever | cop |
| 13 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 courageous | cc |
| 15 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clever | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 daughter | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 daughter | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mayor | det |
| 20 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mayor | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Molly | punct |
| 24 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the little girl | brown eyes and black hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the little girl not said here | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the little girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | girl | the mayor's daughter | tree rules |
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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