Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 74
She took a white chip in her mouth, and vanished instantly; this was her accomplishment.
Who acts: daughter, this · What happens: take, vanish, be · To what, where: white chip, mouth, accomplishment
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, this), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chip | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chip | amod |
| 5 | chip | chip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chip | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanished | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 vanished | cc |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 11 vanished | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 accomplishment | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 accomplishment | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 accomplishment | cop |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 accomplishment | nmod:poss |
| 17 | accomplishment | accomplishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | daughter | a white chip | daughter's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent chip=Value in mouth=Location | |||
| 2 | vanish | past | daughter not said here | instantly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | daughter's accomplishment | 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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