Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 9
But the young Scotch lady looked round, for a long time, in an undecided way.
Who acts: young Scotch lady · What happens: look round
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Scotch lady), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lady | amod |
| 4 | Scotch | Scotch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lady | compound |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 way | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | undecided | undecided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | the young Scotch lady | time | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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