Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 120
A great strong man had taken her up in his arms, and she was looking straight into his bearded face.
Who acts: great strong man, last · What happens: take up, look · To what, where: last, arms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great strong man, last), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 taken | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 arms | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arms | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looking | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looking | aux |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | conj |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 face | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 face | amod |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past · perfect | a great strong man | last | man's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | last | into man's bearded face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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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