Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 1

Anne Lisbeth was a beautiful young woman, with a red and white complexion, glittering white teeth, and clear soft eyes; and her footstep was light in the dance, but her mind was lighter still.

Who acts: Anne, red complexion, footstep, mind · What happens: be, glitter, mind · To what, where: beautiful young woman, white teeth, dance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, red complexion, footstep, mind), 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	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 woman	nsubj
2	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Anne	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 woman	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 complexion	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 complexion	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 complexion	det
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 complexion	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 white	cc
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 red	conj
14	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woman	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 glittering	punct
16	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 complexion	acl
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 teeth	amod
18	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 glittering	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eyes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eyes	cc
21	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
22	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 teeth	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 light	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 light	cc
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 footstep	nmod:poss
27	footstep	footstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 light	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 light	cop
29	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 dance	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dance	det
32	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 light	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lighter	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 lighter	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mind	nmod:poss
36	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lighter	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 lighter	cop
38	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 light	conj
39	still	still	ADV	_	38 lighter	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Anne	a beautiful young woman and a red complexion				tree rules
2	glitter	gerund	a red complexion not said here	white teeth and clear soft eyes				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
3	is	past	Anne's footstep		the dance		light property	tree rules
4	is	past	Anne's mind			still	light property	tree rules
5	mind		Anne					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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