Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 48
The noble young lady stood in the room and smiled radiantly when her father said to her, "It is your living image."
Who acts: noble young lady, father, room · What happens: stand, smile, say, be · To what, where: room, lady, living image · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble young lady, father, room), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 smiled | cc |
| 10 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 11 | radiantly | radiantly | ADV | _ | 10 smiled | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 said | advmod |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 image | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 image | punct |
| 20 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 image | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 image | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 image | nmod:poss |
| 23 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 image | amod |
| 24 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 image | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 image | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the noble young lady | the room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | the noble young lady not said here | radiantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady's father | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | room | your living image | tree rules |
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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