Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 48

Her eyes were so blue and clear, her mouth was so delicate and red, she looked like a little water spirit, as beautiful as such a spirit can be imagined.

Who acts: eyes, mouth, daughter · What happens: be, look, imagine · To what, where: spirit

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, mouth, daughter), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blue	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 blue	advmod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clear	cc
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 delicate	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 delicate	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 delicate	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 delicate	advmod
13	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 red	cc
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 delicate	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	parataxis
19	like	like	ADP	_	23 spirit	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spirit	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spirit	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spirit	compound
23	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beautiful	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 beautiful	case
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looked	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 imagined	mark
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 spirit	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 spirit	det
30	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 imagined	nsubj:pass
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 imagined	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 imagined	aux:pass
33	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 beautiful	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	daughter's eyes		blue property	tree rules
2	be		daughter's eyes not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	daughter's mouth		delicate property	tree rules
4	be		daughter's mouth not said here			tree rules
5	look	past	daughter		like a little water spirit	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	imagine	can · passive		such spirit		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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