Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 109

She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at the back of her head, and something like a shut-up umbrella in front; there were a lot of dangling bits of seaweed hanging about her.

Who acts: Barbel, lot, seaweed · What happens: have, stare, be, dangle, hang · To what, where: mouth, eyes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbel, lot, seaweed), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mouth	det
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 staring	cc
6	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mouth	conj
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 staring	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ours	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 ours	case
10	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 staring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 balloon	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 balloon	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 balloon	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 balloon	amod
15	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 back	det
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 balloon	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 back	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 something	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 something	cc
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	obl
25	like	like	ADP	_	30 umbrella	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 umbrella	det
27	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 umbrella	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 shut	compound:prt
30	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 something	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 front	case
32	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 umbrella	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 were	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 were	expl
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 lot	det
37	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 were	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 bits	case
39	dangling	dangle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 bits	amod
40	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lot	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 seaweed	case
42	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bits	nmod
43	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 seaweed	acl
44	about	about	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 hanging	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Barbel	a mouth		a great balloon at the back of Barbel's head obl; something obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	stare	gerund	Barbel not said here	eyes		like ours	tree rules
3	be	past	a lot of dangling bits of seaweed		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dangle	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hang	gerund	seaweed not said here			about Barbel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location

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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