Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 91
Her beautiful face wore an expression like that of the stony countenance with the snaky locks.
Who acts: beautiful face · What happens: wear · To what, where: expression
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 (beautiful face), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 face | amod |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 expression | det |
| 6 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 expression | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 countenance | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 countenance | det |
| 11 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 countenance | amod |
| 12 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 that | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 locks | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 locks | det |
| 15 | snaky | snaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 locks | amod |
| 16 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 countenance | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Madman's beautiful face | a expression | like that | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent expression=Source |
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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