Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 88
And the daughter, what a sweet face and bright eyes she had!
Who acts: daughter · What happens: have · To what, where: sweet face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 daughter | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 face | punct |
| 5 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 face | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 face | det |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 face | amod |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eyes | cc |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 face | conj |
| 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 | 8 face | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | daughter | what sweet face and bright eyes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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