Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 93
How gentle and sweet he looks as he lies there with his eyes closed!
Who acts: boy · What happens: look, lie, close · To what, where: eyes
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 (boy), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 gentle | advmod |
| 2 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | advcl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sweet | cc |
| 4 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gentle | conj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 lies | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | advcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lies | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lies | obl |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eyes | acl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | boy | there | with boy's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | close | participle | boy's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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