Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 57
How tall, and slender, and thin he had grown; but the eyes and the sweet angel mouth were still beautiful.
Who acts: boy, eyes · What happens: grow, be
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 (boy, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 tall | advmod |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slender | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 slender | cc |
| 5 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tall | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thin | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thin | cc |
| 8 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tall | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grown | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grown | aux |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thin | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 beautiful | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beautiful | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mouth | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mouth | det |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 19 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mouth | compound |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beautiful | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tall | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the eyes and the sweet angel mouth | still | beautiful property | 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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