Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 123
A white face appeared quite close to her, with a mist, hanging like a garment from its shoulders. "
Who acts: white face · What happens: appear, hang · To what, where: shoulders
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 (white face), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 face | amod |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appeared | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 close | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mist | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 mist | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mist | det |
| 12 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hanging | punct |
| 14 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 garment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 garment | det |
| 17 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hanging | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shoulders | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hanging | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a white face | with a mist; close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | a white face not said here | mist's shoulders | like a garment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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