Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 72
But the great man's daughters are still young, and little Ida is a rose as fair to look upon as on the day when the shipbuilder first saw her.
Who acts: daughters, little Ida, shipbuilder · What happens: be, look, see · To what, where: rose, thing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, little Ida, shipbuilder), 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 | _ | 9 young | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 man | case |
| 6 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 young | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 young | advmod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ida | amod |
| 13 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rose | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 young | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 fair | case |
| 18 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rose | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fair | acl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 day | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 saw | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shipbuilder | det |
| 28 | shipbuilder | shipbuilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 saw | advmod |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 day | acl:relcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the great man's daughters | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | little Ida | a rose | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | little Ida not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | day | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | the shipbuilder | thing | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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