Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 17
When she was only five years old, she would sit proudly on her horse, and look saucily round with her great black eyes.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, sit, look
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 old | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 five | advmod |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sit | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sit | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | aux |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 11 sit | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 sit | parataxis |
| 19 | saucily | saucily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 look | xcomp |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 look | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 24 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | would | daughter | on daughter's horse; proudly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | with daughter's great black eyes; round, saucily property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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