Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 35
She looked up, and by her side stood a man wrapped in a black cloak, with a hood closely drawn over his face; but her keen glance could distinguish the face under the hood.
Who acts: word, keen glance · What happens: look up, stand, wrap, draw, distinguish, glance · To what, where: man, black cloak, hood, face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, keen glance), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 side | nmod:poss |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obj |
| 12 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cloak | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cloak | det |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cloak | amod |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wrapped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hood | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hood | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hood | det |
| 20 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 21 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 22 drawn | advmod |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hood | acl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 face | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drawn | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 distinguish | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 distinguish | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 glance | nmod:poss |
| 29 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 glance | amod |
| 30 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 distinguish | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 distinguish | aux |
| 32 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 face | det |
| 34 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 distinguish | obj |
| 35 | under | under | ADP | _ | 37 hood | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hood | det |
| 37 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 distinguish | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | word | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | word not said here | a man | by word's side; with a hood | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 3 | wrap | participle | a man not said here | a black cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination | ||||
| 4 | draw | participle | a hood not said here | man's face | closely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | distinguish | could | word's keen glance | the face | the hood | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute face=Theme | |||
| 6 | glance | word | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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