Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 39
She was a miserable-looking object, lame of one leg, and with a large false curl hanging down over one of her eyes, which was blind.
Who acts: woman, large false curl, eyes · What happens: look, be, hang down · To what, where: looking object
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 (woman, large false curl, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 object | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 object | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 object | det |
| 4 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 miserable | punct |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 object | amod |
| 7 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lame | punct |
| 9 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 object | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 leg | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 leg | nummod |
| 12 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lame | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 curl | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 curl | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 curl | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 curl | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 curl | amod |
| 18 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 curl | amod |
| 19 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 object | appos |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 curl | acl |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 hanging | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hanging | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blind | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 blind | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blind | cop |
| 30 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 object | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | woman | a looking object | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang down | gerund | a large false curl not said here | over one of woman's eyes; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over one=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | woman's eyes | blind 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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