Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 135

Charlotte blushed to guess at it.

Who acts: Charlotte · What happens: blush, guess · To what, where: hand

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charlotte), 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	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blushed	nsubj
2	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 guess	mark
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 blushed	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guess	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blush	past	Charlotte						tree rules
2	guess	to-infinitive	Charlotte not said here			hand			vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at it=Value

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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