Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 89
Molly was very charming, but rather bold; and how she did tease!
Who acts: Molly · What happens: be, tease
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 (Molly), 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 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 charming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charming | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 charming | advmod |
| 4 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bold | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 bold | cc |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 bold | advmod |
| 8 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 charming | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 tease | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tease | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 tease | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tease | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tease | aux |
| 14 | tease | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 charming | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Molly | charming property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Molly not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | tease | past · do-support | Molly | vn ferret-35.6 «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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