Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 9
What red cheeks and what angels' eyes! but they have no shoes nor stockings.
Who acts: red cheeks, cheeks · What happens: eye, have · To what, where: shoes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red cheeks, cheeks), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cheeks | amod |
| 3 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eyes | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 eyes | nsubj |
| 6 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 angels | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cheeks | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheeks | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 shoes | det |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 stockings | cc |
| 16 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shoes | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eye | red cheeks and angels's eyes | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | cheeks = cheek | no shoes nor stockings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
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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