Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 62
Ib and Christina looked at the wishing nuts with wide open eyes.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: look
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 (Ib), 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 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Christina | cc |
| 3 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ib | conj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 nuts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nuts | det |
| 7 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nuts | compound |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ib and Christina | with wide open eyes; at the wishing nuts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nut=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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