Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 112
Only tangled grass, and yet she was frightened at it.
What happens: tangle, frighten · To what, where: grass, Anne, much
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: 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tangled | advmod |
| 2 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tangled | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 frightened | cc |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux:pass |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tangled | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 frightened | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle | participle | grass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | frighten | past · passive | Anne | much | yet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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