Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 44
Among the village children was a little ragged, poor girl, but a pretty one to look at.
What happens: be, look · To what, where: little ragged poor girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | compound |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 girl | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 8 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ragged | punct |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 one | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 girl | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 one | acl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a little ragged poor girl but a pretty one | among the village children | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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