Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 123
At last it came out that Christina, who had grown a very pretty girl, was more lucky than ever.
Who acts: manner, Christina · What happens: come out, grow, be · To what, where: pretty girl, last
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 (manner, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lucky | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 grown | mark |
| 7 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grown | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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 | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 pretty | advmod |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grown | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lucky | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 lucky | amod |
| 19 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 lucky | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | manner | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | Christina | a pretty girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | last | lucky 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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