Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 9
But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look.
Who acts: sight · What happens: make, look · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 gracious | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gracious | punct |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gracious | amod |
| 4 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 gracious | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rain | det |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rain | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gracious | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gracious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | a sight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | a sight not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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