Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 111

She shuddered; yet it was nothing save a heap of grass and tangled seaweed flung across a long stone, but it looked like a corpse.

Who acts: Anne, much · What happens: shudder, be, fling, look · To what, where: nothing, tangled seaweed, long stone

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, much), 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	2 shuddered	nsubj
2	shuddered	shudder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
4	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 nothing	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nothing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nothing	cop
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 shuddered	obj
8	save	save	ADP	_	10 heap	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 heap	det
10	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nothing	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heap	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 seaweed	cc
14	tangled	tangled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seaweed	amod
15	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grass	conj
16	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seaweed	acl
17	across	across	ADP	_	20 stone	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stone	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stone	amod
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shuddered	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 corpse	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 corpse	det
27	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shuddered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shudder	past	Anne				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	much	nothing		save a heap of grass and tangled seaweed	tree rules
3	fling	participle		tangled seaweed not said here	a long stone		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	much			like a corpse	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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