Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 99
He had grown tall and slender as a reed, with strong limbs, and a dark, brown skin.
Who acts: Aphtanides · What happens: grow · To what, where: dark brown skin
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 (Aphtanides), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grown | aux |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grown | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 slender | cc |
| 6 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tall | conj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 reed | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 reed | det |
| 9 | reed | reed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 limbs | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 limbs | case |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 limbs | amod |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 skin | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 skin | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dark | punct |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grown | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Aphtanides | a dark brown skin | as a reed; with strong limbs; tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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