Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 110
She looked into a thousand faces, but not one was familiar to her; she saw not a single form from home.
Who acts: stream, one · What happens: look, be, not see · To what, where: stream, single form, home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 faces | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 faces | nummod |
| 6 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 familiar | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 familiar | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 familiar | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 familiar | cop |
| 12 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 familiar | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 saw | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 form | det |
| 20 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 form | amod |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 form | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | stream | into thousand faces | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | one | stream | familiar property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not see | past | stream | a single form | home | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=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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