Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 16
And now the wonderful little creatures were pink all over.
Who acts: wonderful little creatures · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful little creatures), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pink | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 pink | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 creatures | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creatures | amod |
| 6 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pink | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pink | cop |
| 8 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 pink | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wonderful little creatures | now | over, pink property | tree rules |
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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