Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 35

She was pale as death, but she laughed at the storm as if it were not bad enough.

Who acts: princess, window · What happens: be, laugh, not be · To what, where: storm

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, window), 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	3 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	cop
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pale	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laughed	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 laughed	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laughed	nsubj
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 storm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 bad	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 bad	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bad	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bad	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bad	advmod
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 laughed	advcl
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 bad	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	princess		as death; pale property	tree rules
2	laugh	past	princess	the storm		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	window		bad, enough property	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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