Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 87
How delicate she was, and yet how blooming!--a child, and yet a grown maiden!
What happens: be, bloom, grow
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delicate | advmod |
| 2 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 delicate | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blooming | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 blooming | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 blooming | advmod |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 blooming | advmod |
| 9 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 delicate | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 blooming | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delicate | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 maiden | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 maiden | cc |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 19 maiden | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 maiden | amod |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 child | appos |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 delicate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | delicate property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | yet | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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