Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 31
She had delicate hands, beautifully white, and her neck was whiter still.
Who acts: smile, neck · What happens: have, be · To what, where: delicate hands
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 (smile, neck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:899): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 white | punct |
| 6 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 white | advmod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whiter | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 whiter | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whiter | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whiter | cop |
| 13 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 whiter | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | smile | delicate hands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | smile's neck | still | white property | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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