Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 3
He had shaved his chin uncommonly smooth, although he had cut himself slightly, and had stuck a piece of newspaper over the place. "
Who acts: mayor · What happens: shave, cut, stick · To what, where: chin, mayor, piece, place
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), 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 shaved | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shaved | aux |
| 3 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chin | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shaved | obj |
| 6 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 3 shaved | advmod |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 uncommonly | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cut | aux |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 shaved | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 cut | obj |
| 14 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 12 cut | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stuck | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stuck | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stuck | aux |
| 18 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cut | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stuck | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 newspaper | case |
| 22 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stuck | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaved | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | past · perfect | mayor | mayor's chin | uncommonly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient | |||
| 2 | cut | past · perfect | mayor | mayor | slightly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product | |||
| 3 | stick | past · perfect | mayor not said here | a piece of newspaper | the place | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme over place=Destination |
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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