Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 39
Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiends only can laugh.
Who acts: wicked brother, fiends · What happens: stop, laugh
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked brother, fiends), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stopped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 10 | hideously | hideously | ADV | _ | 9 laughed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fiends | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 fiends | case |
| 13 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laughed | obl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 laugh | advmod |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 laugh | aux |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fiends | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | girl's wicked brother | over girl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | girl's wicked brother not said here | as fiends; hideously property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | laugh | can | fiends not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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