Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 18
And then she wiped Gerda's eyes, and stuck her own hands in the beautiful muff which was so soft and warm.
Who acts: girl, beautiful muff · What happens: wipe, stick, be · To what, where: eyes, own hands, beautiful muff
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, beautiful muff), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wiped | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wiped | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wiped | nsubj |
| 4 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Gerda | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wiped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stuck | cc |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wiped | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hands | amod |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stuck | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 muff | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 muff | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 muff | amod |
| 17 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 soft | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 soft | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 soft | advmod |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 muff | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 warm | cc |
| 23 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soft | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | past | girl | Gerda's eyes | then | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | |||
| 2 | stick | past | girl not said here | girl's own hands | the beautiful muff | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in muff=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | the beautiful muff | soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the beautiful muff not said here | tree rules |
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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