Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 82
Kay looked at her, and saw that she was so beautiful, he could not imagine a more lovely and intelligent face; she did not now seem to be made of ice, as when he had seen her through his window, and she had nodded to him.
Who acts: Kay, queen, fur · What happens: look, see, be, not imagine, not seem, make · To what, where: lovely face, queen, window, fur · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, queen, fur), 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 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 imagine | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 imagine | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 imagine | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 imagine | advmod |
| 17 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 lovely | advmod |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 intelligent | cc |
| 22 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lovely | conj |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imagine | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 seem | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seem | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seem | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 seem | advmod |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 seem | advmod |
| 29 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 made | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 seem | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ice | case |
| 34 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 seen | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 seen | mark |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 seen | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 seen | aux |
| 40 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 made | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 seen | obj |
| 42 | through | through | ADP | _ | 44 window | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 window | nmod:poss |
| 44 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 seen | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 nodded | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 nodded | cc |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 nodded | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 nodded | aux |
| 49 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 made | conj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 him | case |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 nodded | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Kay | at queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Kay not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | queen | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not imagine | could | fur | a lovely face | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not seem | past · do-support | queen | now | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive · passive | queen not said here | of ice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 7 | see | past · perfect | fur | queen | fur's window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | nod | past · perfect | queen | fur | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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