Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 5

She was still half a child and very delicately built; she had bright blue eyes, and a gentle, sweet expression.

Who acts: pass · What happens: be, build, have · To what, where: child, bright blue eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pass), 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	6 child	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	6 child	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 built	cc
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 delicately	advmod
9	delicately	delicately	ADV	_	10 built	advmod
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 child	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 child	conj
14	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 eyes	amod
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 expression	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 expression	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 expression	det
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 expression	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gentle	punct
22	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 expression	amod
23	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	pass	half child		tree rules
2	build	participle	pass not said here		delicately property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	have	past	pass	bright blue eyes	a gentle sweet expression obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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