Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 110

She sang, he thought, as only an angel could sing; and then she stepped forward to the front and smiled, as only Joanna could smile, and looked directly at Knud.

Who acts: place, Joanna, angel · What happens: sing, think, step forward, smile, look · To what, where: front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (place, Joanna, angel), 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	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 sing	mark
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 angel	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 angel	det
10	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sing	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sing	aux
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thought	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stepped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stepped	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 stepped	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stepped	nsubj
17	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	parataxis
18	forward	forward	ADV	_	17 stepped	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 front	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 front	det
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stepped	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smiled	cc
23	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stepped	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 smile	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 smile	mark
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 smile	advmod
27	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 smile	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 smile	aux
29	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 smiled	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
33	directly	directly	ADV	_	32 looked	advmod
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 Knud	case
35	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 looked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	place				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	think speech: other	past	Joanna				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sing speech: express	could	a angel				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	step forward	past	place	the front	then	forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination
5	smile	past	place not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	smile	could	Joanna				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look	past	place not said here			at Knud; directly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at knud=Theme

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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