Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 74
She pressed forward, looking very much ruffled.
Who acts: rest · What happens: press forward, look, ruffle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg27200:12442): 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pressed | nsubj |
| 2 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 pressed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pressed | advcl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 ruffled | advmod |
| 8 | ruffled | ruffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 looking | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press forward | past | rest | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | rest not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ruffle | participle | rest not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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