Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 39
Longman, the middle finger, looked over the heads of all the others.
Who acts: Longman · What happens: look
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Longman), 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 | Longman | Longman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finger | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 finger | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 finger | amod |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Longman | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Longman | punct |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 heads | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heads | det |
| 10 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 others | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heads | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Longman | over the heads of all others | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over head=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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