Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 133
See how she stretches out her legs, as if she were showing off on a stem.
Who acts: you, grandmother · What happens: see, stretch out, show off · To what, where: legs, stem · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11865): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stretches | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stretches | nsubj |
| 4 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 stretches | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stretches | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showing | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 showing | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 showing | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 showing | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 showing | aux |
| 13 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stretches | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 showing | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 stem | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stem | det |
| 17 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | present | grandmother | grandmother's legs | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | show off | past · progressive | grandmother | a stem | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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