Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 13

And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows quite pointed, to show how it was to be done; and her little arms were very pretty, for she was a sweet-looking child.

Who acts: elbow, little arms · What happens: stick out, make, show, do, be, look · To what, where: little arms, elbows, akimbo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elbow, little arms), 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 stuck	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stuck	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
7	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arms	amod
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 elbows	det
14	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 made	obj
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 pointed	advmod
16	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 elbows	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 show	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	advcl
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 done	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux:pass
23	to	to	PART	_	25 done	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux:pass
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 show	ccomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 pretty	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pretty	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 arms	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 arms	amod
30	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 pretty	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pretty	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 pretty	advmod
33	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pretty	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	42 child	case
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 child	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 child	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 child	det
39	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 looking	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 sweet	punct
41	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 child	amod
42	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	past	elbow	elbow's little arms	then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	make	past	elbow not said here	the elbows			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elbow=Product
3	show	to-infinitive	elbow not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past · passive		akimbo			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	is	past	elbow's little arms			pretty property	tree rules
6	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past	elbow			for a looking child	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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