Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 95

We don't put on scales, and we make ourselves understood in an easier way, simply by twitching the corners of our mouths and staring with our eyes.

Who acts: We, ourselves · What happens: not put, make, understand, twitch, stare · To what, where: scales, ourselves, easier way, corners

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 (We, ourselves), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 scales	case
6	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	advcl
11	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 make	obj
12	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 make	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 understood	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 twitching	punct
18	simply	simply	ADV	_	20 twitching	advmod
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 twitching	mark
20	twitching	twitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 put	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corners	det
22	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 twitching	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mouths	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouths	nmod:poss
25	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 corners	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 staring	cc
27	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 twitching	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 staring	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not put	present · do-support	We		scales		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on scale=Destination
2	make	present	we	ourselves			tree rules
3	understand	participle	ourselves not said here		a easier way		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	twitch	gerund	We not said here	the corners of our mouths		simply property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient
5	stare	gerund	We not said here			with our eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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