Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 73

His face was frank and energetic; he had black shining hair, and a smile about his mouth, which said, "I have a brownie that sits in my ear, and knows every one of you, inside and out."

Who acts: face, George, smile, brownie · What happens: be, have, shine, say, sit, know · To what, where: black shining hair, brownie, ear, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (face, George, smile, brownie), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 face	nmod:poss
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frank	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frank	cop
4	frank	frank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 energetic	cc
6	energetic	energetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frank	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frank	parataxis
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hair	amod
11	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 hair	amod
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 smile	det
16	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mouth	nmod:poss
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smile	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 brownie	det
28	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sits	nsubj
30	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 brownie	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 ear	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ear	nmod:poss
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sits	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knows	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 knows	cc
36	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 have	conj
37	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 knows	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 one	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 inside	punct
42	inside	inside	ADV	_	36 knows	ccomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 out	cc
44	out	out	ADV	_	42 inside	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frank	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 frank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	George's face			frank property	tree rules
2	be		George's face not said here				tree rules
3	have	past	George	black shining hair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	a smile about George's mouth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	present	a smile about George's mouth = smile	a brownie			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brownie=Patient
7	sit in a quote	present	a brownie		my ear		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ear=Location
8	know in a quote	present	a smile about George's mouth = smile not said here	every one of you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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