Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 237
She smiled as he bent over her, and he saw tears trembling out of her beautiful eyelashes. "
Who acts: princess, garden, tears · What happens: smile, bend, see, tremble · To what, where: tears, beautiful eyelashes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, garden, tears), 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 | 2 smiled | nsubj |
| 2 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 bent | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bent | nsubj |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | advcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 smiled | conj |
| 12 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 tears | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 eyelashes | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyelashes | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyelashes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyelashes | amod |
| 18 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 trembling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bend | past | garden | over princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | garden | tears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tear=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | tears not said here | princess's beautiful eyelashes | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eyelash=Location |
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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