Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 25
The jailer's grand-daughter was a charming little thing.
Who acts: grand daughter · What happens: be · To what, where: charming little thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (grand daughter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jailer | det |
| 2 | jailer | jailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 jailer | case |
| 4 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grand | punct |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thing | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 9 | charming | charming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the jailer's grand daughter | a charming little thing | 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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