Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 82

Anna Dorothea, the pale hyacinth, a child of fourteen, was quiet and thoughtful; her large, deep, blue eyes had a dreamy look, but a childlike smile still played round her mouth.

Who acts: Anna, large deep blue eyes, childlike smile · What happens: be, have, play · To what, where: dreamy look

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 (Anna, large deep blue eyes, childlike smile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14702): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 quiet	nsubj
2	Dorothea	Dorothea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anna	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hyacinth	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hyacinth	det
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hyacinth	amod
6	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anna	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Anna	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 fourteen	case
11	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 child	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Anna	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 quiet	cop
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 thoughtful	cc
16	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 quiet	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deep	punct
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 eyes	amod
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 quiet	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 look	det
27	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 look	amod
28	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 played	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 played	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 smile	det
32	childlike	childlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 smile	amod
33	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 played	nsubj
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 played	advmod
35	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	conj
36	round	round	ADP	_	38 mouth	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mouth	nmod:poss
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 played	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Anna			quiet property	tree rules
2	be		Anna not said here				tree rules
3	have	past	Anna's large deep blue eyes	a dreamy look			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
4	play	past	a childlike smile		still	round Anna's mouth	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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