Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 26

She had curly hair like the brightest gold, merry eyes, and such a smiling mouth.

Who acts: guest · What happens: have, smile · To what, where: curly hair

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 (guest), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hair	amod
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 gold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gold	det
7	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 gold	amod
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eyes	punct
10	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eyes	amod
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gold	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mouth	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mouth	cc
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 mouth	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mouth	det
16	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 mouth	amod
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	guest	curly hair				like the brightest gold and merry eyes; such smiling mouth obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	smile	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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