Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 4
He was as well formed and as beautiful as a little child could be, and had wings that reached from his shoulders to his feet.
Who acts: wings · What happens: form, have, reach · To what, where: prettiest, wings, shoulders
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 (wings), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 formed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 formed | aux:pass |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 formed | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 formed | advmod |
| 5 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 beautiful | cc |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 formed | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 child | amod |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 be | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 formed | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 formed | advcl |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wings | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 shoulders | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reached | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | prettiest = pretty | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | wings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | wings | prettiest's shoulders | to prettiest's feet | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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