Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 91
How graceful she was, how gentle, and fluttering, and pretty she looked.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: be, flutter, look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss), 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:pg27200:9522): 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 graceful | advmod |
| 2 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 graceful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 graceful | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gentle | punct |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 gentle | advmod |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 graceful | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fluttering | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fluttering | cc |
| 10 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 graceful | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 graceful | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 graceful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Miss | graceful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Miss not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | flutter | gerund | Miss not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | past | Miss | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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