Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 73
She was slender and fair as moonlight, and the most graceful of all the sisters.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | 3 slender | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slender | cop |
| 3 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fair | cc |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slender | conj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 moonlight | case |
| 7 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 graceful | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 graceful | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 graceful | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 graceful | advmod |
| 12 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slender | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sisters | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sisters | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sisters | det |
| 16 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 graceful | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter | slender property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | daughter not said here | as moonlight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | daughter not said here | of all sisters | tree rules |
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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