Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 2
He looked smart, for his shirt-frill, in which he had stuck a breast-pin, and his ruffles, were very fine.
Who acts: mayor, ruffles · What happens: look, stick, be · To what, where: breast pin, shirt frill
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 (mayor, ruffles), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frill | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 frill | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 frill | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frill | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 shirt | punct |
| 9 | frill | frill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stuck | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stuck | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stuck | aux |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 frill | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pin | det |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 breast | punct |
| 19 | pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fine | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fine | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ruffles | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ruffles | ruffle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fine | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ruffles | punct |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 fine | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 fine | advmod |
| 27 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | mayor | smart property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stick | past · perfect | mayor | a breast pin | mayor's shirt frill | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme in which=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | mayor's ruffles | fine property | 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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