Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 140
His broad, portly person, hid the slender, lovely Babette; but she came forward and glanced at him with her bright, dark eyes.
Who acts: broad portly person, person · What happens: hide, come forward, glance · To what, where: slender lovely Babette
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (broad portly person, person), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 person | nmod:poss |
| 2 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 4 | portly | portly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Babette | det |
| 9 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Babette | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Babette | punct |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Babette | amod |
| 12 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hid | parataxis |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 glanced | cc |
| 19 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 glanced | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eyes | punct |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 glanced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Bex's broad portly person | the slender lovely Babette | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come forward | past | person | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glance | past | person not said here | at Bex; with person's bright dark eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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