Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 103
He is pleased now,' she said, 'with your pretty face; but good looks do not last long.
Who acts: man, angel, good looks · What happens: be, say, not last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, angel, good looks), 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 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 face | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 face | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 last | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 last | cc |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looks | amod |
| 18 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 last | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 last | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 last | advmod |
| 21 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pleased | conj |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 last | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | now | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | angel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not last | present · do-support | good looks | long property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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