Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 11
She was the boatman's daughter, graceful and delicate as the child of a gentleman; had she been dressed differently, no one would have believed that she lived in a hut on the neighboring heath with her father.
Who acts: Christina · What happens: be, have, dress, believe, live, neighbor · To what, where: daughter, Christina, one, hut
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christina), 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 | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boatman | det |
| 4 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 boatman | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 graceful | punct |
| 8 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delicate | cc |
| 10 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 graceful | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 child | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delicate | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gentleman | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gentleman | det |
| 16 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 child | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 graceful | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dressed | nsubj |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 dressed | aux:pass |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 had | xcomp |
| 22 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 21 dressed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 believed | punct |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 believed | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 believed | aux |
| 28 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dressed | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 lived | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 believed | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hut | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hut | det |
| 34 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lived | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 heath | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 heath | det |
| 37 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 heath | amod |
| 38 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lived | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 father | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 father | nmod:poss |
| 41 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heath | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Christina | the boatman's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Christina not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dress | participle · passive | Christina | differently property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | believe | would · perfect · passive | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | live | past | Christina | a hut | on the neighboring heath with Christina's father | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 6 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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