Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 32
It could easily be seen that she was a very lovely girl, and as yet she was not engaged.
Who acts: smile · What happens: see, be, not engage · To what, where: cork, lovely girl, 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 (smile), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 3 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 5 seen | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 girl | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 girl | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 girl | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 lovely | advmod |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 engaged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 engaged | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 yet | case |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 engaged | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 engaged | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 engaged | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 engaged | advmod |
| 20 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | cork | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | smile | a lovely girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not engage | past · passive | smile | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as yet=Attribute |
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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