Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 47
She looked the people through and through with her black eyes, rode her horse as bravely as a man, and could fire off her gun like a practiced hunter.
Who acts: daughter, black eyes · What happens: look, ride, practice · To what, where: horse, gun
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, black 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rode | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 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 | 13 rode | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 bravely | advmod |
| 17 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 13 rode | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fire | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fire | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 fire | aux |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | parataxis |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 gun | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 gun | nmod:poss |
| 27 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 hunter | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hunter | det |
| 30 | practiced | practice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hunter | amod |
| 31 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | daughter | through property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | daughter's black eyes | daughter's horse | daughter's gun | as a man; like a practiced hunter; bravely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme off gun=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | practice | participle | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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