Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 64
They were pictures of angels, fair and bright; and yet our little Anastasia looked equally beautiful, as it seemed to me.
Who acts: pictures, little Anastasia, it · What happens: be, look, seem · To what, where: pictures, me
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 (pictures, little Anastasia, it), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pictures | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pictures | cop |
| 3 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 angels | case |
| 5 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pictures | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fair | punct |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 angels | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bright | cc |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fair | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Anastasia | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Anastasia | amod |
| 15 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pictures | parataxis |
| 17 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 18 beautiful | advmod |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seemed | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 seemed | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 seemed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pictures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | pictures = picture | pictures | of angels | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | our little Anastasia | yet | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | seem | past | it | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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