Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 12

He stood holding his ladder quite handily, and his face was as fair and rosy as a girl's; indeed, that was rather a mistake, it should have had some black marks on it.

Who acts: beard, face, that · What happens: stand, hold, be, have · To what, where: ladder, mistake, black marks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, face, that), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ladder	nmod:poss
5	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holding	obj
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 handily	advmod
7	handily	handily	ADV	_	3 holding	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fair	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fair	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fair	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fair	cop
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 fair	case
14	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rosy	cc
16	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fair	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 girl	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fair	advcl
20	's	's	PART	_	19 girl	case
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 stood	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mistake	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 mistake	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 mistake	cop
26	rather	rather	ADV	_	28 mistake	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 mistake	det
28	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 had	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	aux
33	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stood	parataxis
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 marks	det
35	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 marks	amod
36	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 had	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 marks	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	beard			indeed property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hold	gerund	beard not said here	beard's ladder		handily property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme
3	is	past	beard's face			fair property	tree rules
4	be		beard's face not said here				tree rules
5	is a	past	that	a mistake			tree rules
6	have	should · perfect	face	some black marks	mistake		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=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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