Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 96
Unnoticed by me, she had gradually become a beautiful maiden, and I was now also a stout, strong youth.
Who acts: thing, I · What happens: become, be · To what, where: beautiful maiden
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 (thing, I), 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 | Unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Unnoticed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 become | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | aux |
| 7 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 8 become | advmod |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Unnoticed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | amod |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stout | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stout | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stout | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stout | cop |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stout | advmod |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 stout | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stout | det |
| 19 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maiden | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 youth | punct |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 youth | amod |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maiden | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unnoticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | thing | a beautiful maiden and strong youth | gradually property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | now | stout 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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