Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 203
She was light, but he was lighter still; she had never seen such a dancer before.
Who acts: Water, prince · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: dancer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, prince), 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 | 3 light | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 light | cop |
| 3 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lighter | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 lighter | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lighter | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lighter | cop |
| 8 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 light | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 lighter | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 light | conj |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 dancer | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dancer | det |
| 17 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Water | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | prince | still | light property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect | Water | such dancer | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancer=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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