Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 7
The corn has a smiling look and the heaviest and richest ears bend their heads low as if in pious humility.
Who acts: corn, smiling look · What happens: have, smile, bend · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, smiling look), 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 | 2 corn | det |
| 2 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 5 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 look | amod |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bend | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ears | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ears | det |
| 9 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 ears | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 richest | cc |
| 11 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 heaviest | conj |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | conj |
| 13 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bend | obj |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bend | xcomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 humility | case |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 humility | mark |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 humility | case |
| 20 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 humility | amod |
| 21 | humility | humility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 low | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the corn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | bend | present | a smiling look and the heaviest ears | look's heads | low property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
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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