Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 169

Grandmother is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her hair is quite white; but her eyes are like two stars, and they have a mild, gentle expression in them when they look at you, which does you good.

Who acts: Grandmother, hair, eyes · What happens: be, wrinkle, have, look, do · To what, where: face, mild gentle expression, you

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 (Grandmother, hair, eyes), 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	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wrinkled	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wrinkled	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wrinkled	aux:pass
9	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 old	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 white	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 white	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hair	nmod:poss
13	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 white	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 white	cop
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 white	advmod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wrinkled	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stars	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 stars	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stars	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stars	cop
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 stars	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 stars	nummod
24	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 expression	det
30	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 expression	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mild	punct
32	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 expression	amod
33	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 expression	nmod
36	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 look	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 look	nsubj
38	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 have	advcl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 you	case
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 look	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 does	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 does	nsubj
43	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 have	parataxis
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 does	obj
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 does	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandmother		old property	tree rules
2	wrinkle	present · passive		mother's face		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	is	present	mother's hair		white property	tree rules
4	is	present	mother's eyes		like two stars	tree rules
5	have	present	eyes = eye	a mild gentle expression	in stars = star	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient
6	look	present	eyes = eye		at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme
7	do	present		you	good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality

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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