Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 11
The bad, chained man looks at him, and a more gentle expression comes into his hard face.
Who acts: chained man, more gentle expression · What happens: chain, look, come · To what, where: hard face
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chained man, more gentle expression), 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 | 5 man | det |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chained | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bad | punct |
| 4 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 comes | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 expression | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 expression | amod |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 expression | amod |
| 14 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chain | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | the chained man | at bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | present | a more gentle expression | bird's hard face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into face=Initial_Location |
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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