Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 64

Then her mother filliped her nose till it was quite red; yet she did it all for love.

Who acts: mother, nose · What happens: fillip, be, do · To what, where: nose

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 (mother, nose), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 filliped	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filliped	nsubj
4	filliped	fillip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filliped	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 red	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 red	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 red	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 red	advmod
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 filliped	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
13	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 did	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filliped	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 it	det
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 love	case
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filliped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fillip	past	girl's mother	mother's nose	then		tree rules
2	is	past	nose			red property	tree rules
3	do	past	mother	nose	yet	for love	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/174/64/