Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 66
They were misshapen, wretched-looking creatures, with yellow complexions; and on their necks were dark, ugly lumps of flesh, hanging down like bags.
Who acts: men, necks · What happens: be, look, hang down · To what, where: creatures
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, necks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 misshapen | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 misshapen | cop |
| 3 | misshapen | misshapen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 5 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looking | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretched | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 misshapen | advcl |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looking | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 complexions | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 complexions | case |
| 11 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 complexions | amod |
| 12 | complexions | complexion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 creatures | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dark | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 necks | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 necks | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 necks | nmod:poss |
| 17 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dark | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dark | cop |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 misshapen | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lumps | punct |
| 21 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lumps | amod |
| 22 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dark | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 flesh | case |
| 24 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lumps | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hanging | punct |
| 26 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dark | parataxis |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 hanging | compound:prt |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 bags | case |
| 29 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hanging | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 misshapen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | misshapen property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | men = man not said here | creatures and yellow complexions | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | men's necks | ugly lumps of flesh obl; dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hang down | gerund | like bags | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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