Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 43
He had long white hair, a pale face, and large clear blue eyes. "
Who acts: man · What happens: have · To what, where: long white hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hair | amod |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 face | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 face | amod |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hair | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eyes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eyes | cc |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | long white hair and a pale face | large clear blue eyes obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
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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