Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 168
She looked very stately when she straightened her back; two proud eyes looked forth from beneath her black eyebrows.
Who acts: Holberg, two proud eyes · What happens: look, straighten · To what, where: back
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 (Holberg, two proud eyes), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 stately | advmod |
| 4 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 straightened | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 straightened | nsubj |
| 7 | straightened | straighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 straightened | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eyes | nummod |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 15 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 eyebrows | case |
| 17 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 eyebrows | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyebrows | amod |
| 20 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Holberg | stately property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | straighten | past | Holberg | Holberg's back | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | two proud eyes | from Holberg's black eyebrows; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from eyebrow=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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