Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 11
He saw Joanna, and how beautiful and charming she looked!
Who acts: Knud, wife · What happens: see, charm, look · To what, where: Joanna
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knud, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beautiful | cc |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 charming | cc |
| 9 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 beautiful | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 charming | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Knud | Joanna | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joanna=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | charm | gerund | Knud not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | wife | 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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