Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 94
She blushed deeply, but pressed his hand, and looked at him with her dear blue eyes.
Who acts: smile · What happens: blush, press, look · To what, where: hand
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 (smile), 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 blushed | nsubj |
| 2 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 blushed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pressed | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 pressed | cc |
| 6 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blushed | parataxis |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blushed | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blush | past | smile | deeply property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | press | past | father's hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | smile not said here | at father; with smile's dear blue eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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