Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 30
She was young and pretty; her brown eyes laughed, and a smile lingered round her mouth as sweet as that in her eyes.
Who acts: daughter, brown eyes · What happens: be, laugh, linger · To what, where: smile
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, brown eyes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pretty | cc |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 young | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sweet | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sweet | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 smile | det |
| 14 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sweet | nsubj |
| 15 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 smile | acl |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lingered | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 sweet | advmod |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 laughed | ccomp |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 sweet | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sweet | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | daughter's brown eyes | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | linger | participle | a smile not said here | round daughter's mouth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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