Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 14

But it was most charming of all when it came as an old grandmother, with silvery hair, and such large, sensible eyes.

Who acts: door, charming · What happens: be, come · To what, where: charming

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, charming), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 charming	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 charming	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 charming	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 charming	advmod
5	charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 charming	nmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 grandmother	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 grandmother	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grandmother	amod
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hair	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hair	amod
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 large	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 large	cc
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 large	amod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 came	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eyes	punct
24	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyes	amod
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 large	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	door	charming				of all	tree rules
2	come	past	charming					as a old grandmother; with silvery hair	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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