Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 7
The prisoner looked pale; he had a great beard and large, sparkling eyes.
Who acts: prisoner, hole · What happens: look, have, sparkle · To what, where: great beard
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 (prisoner, hole), 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 prisoner | det |
| 2 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beard | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eyes | cc |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sparkling | punct |
| 14 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beard | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the prisoner | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | hole | a great beard and large sparkling eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sparkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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