Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 23
Their faces were on the side that was uppermost, for on the other side they looked very different.
Who acts: faces, side · What happens: be, look · To what, where: side, other side
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faces, side), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 faces | nmod:poss |
| 2 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 side | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 side | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 uppermost | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 uppermost | cop |
| 9 | uppermost | uppermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 side | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uppermost | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 side | acl:relcl |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 different | advmod |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cakes's faces | the side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the side | for the other side; uppermost property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | faces = face | the other side not said here | different property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme side=Attribute |
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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