Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 172
Her powers of body were almost exhausted, but her eyes flashed brightly, and on her cheeks was a rosy flush.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: exhaust, flash, be · To what, where: powers, rosy flush, cheeks
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 (eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 powers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 body | case |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 powers | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 exhausted | advmod |
| 7 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flashed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 flashed | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flashed | nsubj |
| 12 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exhausted | conj |
| 13 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 12 flashed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flush | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flush | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 cheeks | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flush | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 flush | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 flush | det |
| 21 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flush | amod |
| 22 | flush | flush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flashed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | past · passive | Anne's powers of body | almost property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | flash | past | Anne's eyes | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a rosy flush | Anne's cheeks | tree rules |
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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