Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 30
How pretty and bright she looked: even my mother's eyes were not more gentle than hers.
Who acts: mother, eyes · What happens: look, not be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, eyes), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 pretty | advmod |
| 2 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bright | cc |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pretty | conj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 mother | advmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mother | case |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gentle | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gentle | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 gentle | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 gentle | advmod |
| 16 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looked | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 hers | case |
| 18 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gentle | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | mother | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | my mother's eyes | than mother; gentle property | 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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