Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 185
She was laid in a black coffin, looking mild and beautiful in the white folds of the shrouded linen, though her eyes were closed; but every wrinkle had vanished, her hair looked white and silvery, and around her mouth lingered a sweet smile.
Who acts: wrinkle, hair · What happens: lay, look, shroud, close, vanish, linger · To what, where: GRANDMOTHER, black coffin, eyes, sweet smile, mouth
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 (wrinkle, hair), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | aux:pass |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 coffin | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 coffin | det |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coffin | amod |
| 7 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 coffin | conj |
| 10 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | cc |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mild | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 folds | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 folds | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 folds | amod |
| 16 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beautiful | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 linen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 linen | det |
| 19 | shrouded | shroud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 linen | amod |
| 20 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 folds | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 closed | punct |
| 22 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 26 closed | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 closed | aux:pass |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 looking | advcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 vanished | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 vanished | cc |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 wrinkle | det |
| 30 | wrinkle | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 vanished | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 vanished | aux |
| 32 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 laid | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looked | punct |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hair | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 vanished | parataxis |
| 37 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 looked | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 silvery | cc |
| 39 | silvery | silvery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 white | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lingered | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 lingered | cc |
| 42 | around | around | ADP | _ | 44 mouth | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lingered | obl |
| 45 | lingered | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 looked | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 smile | det |
| 47 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 smile | amod |
| 48 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lingered | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | GRANDMOTHER | a black coffin | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | mild property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | shroud | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | close | past · passive | GRANDMOTHER's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect | every wrinkle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | look | past | GRANDMOTHER's hair | white property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | linger | past | GRANDMOTHER's hair not said here | a sweet smile | GRANDMOTHER's mouth | 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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